Mako - Extremely fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust.

at makojs.dev

2 up and 0 down, posted by afc163 175 days ago 3 comments

Another one?  This is nothing against the developers of Mako... It's just that I've already got like 2-4 other rust bundlers on the back of my todo list to evaluate.

It really feels like there's way too much parallel effort on this front.  I've still got to look at rspack/rsbuild and farm.  Not sure that I'll particularly like rspack as I really appreciate the vite/parcel approach a bit more.  From what I understand rspack is just a faster webpack.

Aside: Some may also have issue with Geopolitical concerns over the source (Ant Group/China).

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qacomet 170 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

I think this is partially because there's VC money in open source infrastructure projects. I'm guessing many of these projects will have some kind of paid service on top that will be announced later on.

tracker1 169 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Not sure on that... Ant Group / Alibaba seem to both invest heavily into open-source projects.  Feels a bit of NIH sometimes though.  I don't think they're looking to create a closed or commercial offering from this.