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Now that's a game I wouldn't mind a rewrite of. Imagine Heroes 3 with a modern engine and modding available out of the box instead of people having to reverse engineer it just to keep it alive today.
Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
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Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#42The old joke is that there's a new JavaScript framework every month. That's not really true — we've had the same big three for a decade — but there has been an explosion of new bundlers: vite, esbuild, turbopack, farm, swc, rome/biome, rspack, rolldown, mako. And of course plenty of projects are still using rollup and webpack. Some competition is a good thing, and it seems to have led to a drive for performance in al…
> The old joke is that there's a new JavaScript framework every month. That's not really true — we've had the same big three for a decade
Yup. I know a few people who were using React 10 years ago and still use it today. What has changed frequently is the tooling. e.g. Bower going away in favor of NPM; Gulp/Grunt going away in favor of Webpack, which is slowly going away in favor of Vite; CoffeeScript going away in favor of TypeScript; AMD/CJS/UMD going away in favor of ES modules, and so on.
ClojureScript has a great deal of stability in both the language itself and tooling, but nowadays I can't give up the developer experience of TypeScript and Vite. The churn in the tooling of the JS/TS ecosystem is wild, but since about 2021 I have found ESM + TypeScript + Vite to provide fast compile times, fearless refactoring, and a similar level of hot-reloading that I enjoyed in Clojure(Script). Can't say I miss Webpack, though!
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#43The old joke is that there's a new JavaScript framework every month. That's not really true — we've had the same big three for a decade — but there has been an explosion of new bundlers: vite, esbuild, turbopack, farm, swc, rome/biome, rspack, rolldown, mako. And of course plenty of projects are still using rollup and webpack. Some competition is a good thing, and it seems to have led to a drive for performance in al…
By all of them being written in Rust they could reuse other's packages (crates), AFAIK the vite team is writing rolldown (to replace rollup) and they are using crates from the oxc project, not sure about the others.
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
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Now that's a game I wouldn't mind a rewrite of. Imagine Heroes 3 with a modern engine and modding available out of the box instead of people having to reverse engineer it just to keep it alive today.
Exported in WASM to play directly in the browser, including Horn of the Abyss.
I would pay for this.
You'd probably have to redo the art though, since 3DO will unlikely do this port and I doubt they would licence the IP.
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#45The old joke is that there's a new JavaScript framework every month. That's not really true — we've had the same big three for a decade — but there has been an explosion of new bundlers: vite, esbuild, turbopack, farm, swc, rome/biome, rspack, rolldown, mako. And of course plenty of projects are still using rollup and webpack. Some competition is a good thing, and it seems to have led to a drive for performance in al…
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.
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).
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#46I was confused by the "Rust" denotion in the title and presumed it was an alternative builder to compile rust for web (wasm?). It's "yet another" bundler for javascript. Built in rust.
If they didn’t tell us it was built in Rust how would we ever know how smart the developers are?
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#47Everyone is making the point that using JavaScript on the server was a BIG mistake, with this ongoing rewrites. We already had our bundlers in Java and .NET land, before nodejs came to be, and life was good.
Having the same language on the client and on the server is a huge productivity booster for me. I can’t imagine writing so many things twice again. Have you tried it?
Unfortunely I have to, thanks to the Next.js and React only SDKs, that many SaaS products now have as extension mechanism.
Also if it is such a great experience, people wouldn't be rewriting the node ecosystem in Dart, Go and Rust.
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#48This supports all kinds of non-platform-standard features that may tie your project to this specific bundler, but will tie them to bundlers in general. It would be much better to have projects that work without bundlers, that can use them as an optimization step.
Bundlers also tie clients to developers without them realizing. I work for a webhost and Many people still assume that if they have access to their hosting then they have their "source code". We see often that people migrate a sites after breaking ties with a developer only to find what they have may function, but is unmaintainable.
Re: Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
#49Argh name choice ... https://www.makotemplates.org/