Navigating JavaScript Toolchains

Alexander Lichter joins the podcast to talk about Rolldown, a bundler built in Rust by Void Zero that aims to replace Rollup and ESBuild with faster builds and better enterprise scalability. He dives into the power of OXC and Oxlint, the push toward a unified JavaScript toolchain, and previews what to expect at ViteConf 2024.

Links

X: https://x.com/TheAlexLichter
Website: https://www.lichter.io
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@manniL
GitHub: https://github.com/manniL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAlexLichter
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/TheAlexLichter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlichter

Resources

Rolldown: How Vite Bundles at the Speed of Rust: https://squiggleconf.com/2025/sessions#rolldown-how-vite-bundles-at-the-speed-of-rust

Rolldown: https://rolldown.rs
Rolldown-vite migration: https://vite.dev/guide/rolldown

Oxlint Type Aware linting (preview) announcement: https://oxc.rs/blog/2025-08-17-oxlint-type-aware.html
ViteConf: https://viteconf.amsterda

Benchmarks:
Minifier: https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks

Linter: https://github.com/oxc-project/bench-javascript-linter

Parser: https://github.com/oxc-project/bench-javascript-parser-written-in-rust

Transformer: https://github.com/oxc-project/bench-transformer/

Bundler: https://github.com/rolldown/benchmarks

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