[jauntywundrkind]

Rspack (ByteDance) just shipped 1.0. There's Farm too. This is from Ant Group. Major influx of build tools all built in Rust, made in China.

Turbopack is supposed to be coming, as a total rebuild of bundling. Rolldown seems solid, as a Rust roll-up redo.

[hardwaresofton]

Clearly Rust is catching on as a more approachable, safe and performant C/C++.

I personally also think about it as a more-likely-to-make-it-to-production Haskell, with how robust the type system, tooling, and other things are (not to rag on Haskell -- it's a fantastic language and there's lots of overlap in the communities).

[spoiler]

Rsbuild has been really nice to use. I migrated a bunch of webpack projects to Rsbuild and it reduced config, and improved DX.

One of my favourite features is probably that it understands a tsconfig file: https://rsbuild.dev/config/source/tsconfig-path

[aaronlinzx]

they need to create new tracks for promotions and KPI, recreating a wheel in rust will achieve just that. It's referred to as technology investment, but it's really speculation.

[pshu]

it's maybe a Nash Equilibrium to investing in Rust tools in big tech productivity races.

[csomar]

I wonder if this is part of the Chinese de-risking/de-coupling. Major Chinese tech companies seems to be spawning their own open source developer tools.

[alvincodes]

I hadn't heard of any of these, apart from rolldown, thanks!

Hopefully docusaurus gets on that train soon