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by bilekas 720 days ago
Haven't you heard ? Rebuilding everything in rust is the new meta. To be quite honest, call me old fashioned but the fact we need so many bundlers that we are considering which are more performant is a symptom and and not a blessing.
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norman784 720 days ago
For me is the fact that we need a bundler is the underlying issue. I would love that bundlers became first class citizens and come already with the Javascript runtime, similar on how Bun and in some degree Deno does (AFAIK their bundler is intended to use to bundle apps to use in the server and not in the browser).
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vmfunction 720 days ago
Or change the specs of ES/JS to introduce types. It will eliminate use of many projects and even typescript.

Seems like something to bring to WinterCG ? [1]

[1]https://wintercg.org/

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mickael-kerjean 720 days ago
That was the initial promise of dart when it was first release but somehow it never got really there
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LunaSea 720 days ago
Aren't we doing the same with compilers?
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bilekas 720 days ago
I would say not really, at least compilers are an essential component of a compiled language in my eyes. Javascript is transpiled, and I know you can say the same for all compiled also in a roundabout way.

Thinking about it only recently, Go fits in nicely with fast compile times for ' 'builders' esbuild comes to mind. But Rust.. Crazy

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