[dimgl]

We have not seen this whatsoever. How big is your project? `tsx` is almost instantaneous in a server-side project of ours.

[silverwind]

A hello world here takes 400ms on tsx and 250ms on swc-node for me.

Basically it boils down to swc being faster than esbuild, see their benchmarks:

https://swc.rs/docs/benchmarks