Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by kothariji » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:36 AM UTC

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by slopinthebag » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

> Currently, the Oxc transformer does not support lowering native decorators as we are waiting for the specification to progress

Does Oxc also support TS runtime features like constructor parameter properties and enums? I seem to recall in the beta that they had enabled --erasableSyntaxOnly, presumably because Rolldown / Oxc didn't support doing a full transform.

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by johnfn » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

Vite 8 is pretty incredible. We saw around an 8x improvement (4m -> 30s) in our prod build, and it was nearly a drop-in replacement. Congrats (and thank you!) to the Vite team!

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by brandensilva » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 5:56 AM UTC

Man the perf changes for this version are awesome. Thanks Vite.

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by pkilgore » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:11 AM UTC

Congratulations!

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by ameliaquining » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:13 AM UTC

slopinthebag wrote: post #2

> Currently, the Oxc transformer does not support lowering native decorators as we are waiting for the specification to progress Does Oxc also support TS runtime features like constructor parameter properties and enums? I seem to recall in the beta that they had enabled --erasableSyntaxOnly, presumably because Rolldown / Oxc didn't support doing a full transform.

Yes, those work fine: https://playground.oxc.rs/?options=%7B%22run%22%3A%7B%22lint...

For that matter, TypeScript's version of decorators ("experimental decorators") also works: https://playground.oxc.rs/?options=%7B%22run%22%3A%7B%22lint...

What's not supported is the current draft proposal for standardized ECMAScript decorators; if you uncheck experimentalDecorators, the decorator syntax is simply passed through as-is, even when lowering to ES2015.

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by hackernewsman71 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:44 AM UTC

holy shit - Vite 8 - rhymes in french! Did they mention that somewhere?

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by soulchild77 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:45 AM UTC

Awesome! Too bad Next.js will never profit from these incredible community efforts, because Vercel suffers from NIH.

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by verma_yatharth » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:48 AM UTC

I tried it and I saw more than 6x improvement in speed. It's on the top. Awesome tool 1

Re: Vite 8.0 Is Out

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Post by slopinthebag » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:51 AM UTC

ameliaquining wrote: post #6

slopinthebag wrote: post #2

> Currently, the Oxc transformer does not support lowering native decorators as we are waiting for the specification to progress Does Oxc also support TS runtime features like constructor parameter properties and enums? I seem to recall in the beta that they had enabled --erasableSyntaxOnly, presumably because Rolldown / Oxc didn't support doing a full transform.

Yes, those work fine: https://playground.oxc.rs/?options=%7B%22run%22%3A%7B%22lint... For that matter, TypeScript's version of decorators ("experimental decorators") also works: https://playground.oxc.rs/?options=%7B%22run%22%3A%7B%22lint... What's not supported is the current draft proposal for standardized ECMAScript decorators; if you uncheck experimentalDecorators, the decorator syntax is simply passed through as…

Awesome. Standard decorators support is not a dealbreaker for me, but enums and other types of non-erasable syntax would be.

Do you know what the status is on using Rolldown as a crate for rust usage? At the moment most rust projects use SWC but afaik its bundler is depreciated. I usually just call into Deno for builds but would be nice to have it all purely in Rust.