Anyone able to compare this to Vite?
Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
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Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#132Work on esbuild started at the start of 2020. It is primarily authored and maintained by Evan Wallace, who, in addition to making this tremendous contribution to the JavaScript ecosystem, is the CTO and co-founder of Figma . Incredible output.
Sounds like he solved his own problem?
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#133You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing. I just switched to esbuild on our main project…
> I just switched to esbuild on our main project and the build time went from 7 minutes on CI to 1 second. Is that an exaggeration or did it really get 420x faster?
Probably not an exaggeration. My build times aren't that long, but I've seen similar speedups in switching the esbuild (our smaller codebases currently build in less than 0.1 of a second with esbuild)
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#134Anyone able to compare this to Vite?
Vite uses esbuild I think. But the concepts are different.
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#135Anyone able to compare this to Vite?
Vite uses Esbuild for development builds, and they have an answer for why they don't use it for prod builds here https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundle-with-esbuil...
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#136You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing. I just switched to esbuild on our main project…
5 if you include grunt.
6 if you include bash/make for using manual scripts to productionize your yui / jqueryUi / mooTools code with uglify/browserify/gcc/etc
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#137You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing. I just switched to esbuild on our main project…
>build time went from 7 minutes on CI to 1 second
I never jumped into that bandwagon and my build times are instantaneous using regular scripts ...
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#138Work on esbuild started at the start of 2020. It is primarily authored and maintained by Evan Wallace, who, in addition to making this tremendous contribution to the JavaScript ecosystem, is the CTO and co-founder of Figma . Incredible output.
I don't understand this perspective. Everyone only has so many hours in a day, and there's only so fast you can work. If he's writing esbuild that is taking time away from being the CTO of Figma. Either he's working a shit ton, one of the things (Esbuild or Figma) is being somewhat neglected, or his output is actually not as high as it looks.
The tool is likely helping Figma pretty directly by cutting developer build times.
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#139Work on esbuild started at the start of 2020. It is primarily authored and maintained by Evan Wallace, who, in addition to making this tremendous contribution to the JavaScript ecosystem, is the CTO and co-founder of Figma . Incredible output.
Surprise, I didn’t know who was the maintainer and was still unheard of back then until I shared on HN and it was a like wildfire.
Re: Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I came here too say this. The man authored in the neighborhood of 100k LOC in a year, just on this. There's a living 10x dev, it's not a myth. What is ridiculous is to think someone can 10x a normal developer, it's more like the difference between the top few percent and the bottom 10-20%. Evan Wallace is a beast, no doubt.
I really wish people would stop idolising so called '10x' developers. Anyone that is comfortable and familiar with their toolset (e.g. go, .NET, Java, C++) and has a deep understanding of a problem (and has likely solved it once already), can churn out code far, far, faster than an onlooker.
Perhaps that is what makes them '10x developers': a great familiarity with their toolset and a deep understanding of the problems they are solving. In this sense I don't think it's bad to idolize them, as familiarity and understanding are achievable by many people, and they could all become a '10x developer'.