And isn’t this developer convenience at the cost of performance in a piece of software where performance is very important?
Today as my “end of the week fun experiment” I replaced Babel with esbuild on a years old 50k sloc production web application. It took 30 mins and builds now take 500ms instead of 63,000. Not quite apples to apples yet. But it’s such a compelling change that I can’t ignore it. I’m excited to see how Babel steps it up in the years ahead.
Today as my “end of the week fun experiment” I replaced Babel with esbuild on a years old 50k sloc production web application. It took 30 mins and builds now take 500ms instead of 63,000. Not quite apples to apples yet. But it’s such a compelling change that I can’t ignore it. I’m excited to see how Babel steps it up in the years ahead.