Recently I've seen a transition of building tooling infra in the JavaScript ecosystem using languages other than JavaScript! Specifically with compiled languages such as Rust and Go. The main goal is performance.
JavaScript is a great language for most of the use cases in software development. But when it comes to creating high performant tooling, there are better options out there.
Here are a few tools built with compiled languages,
- esbuild - https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
- RSLint - https://github.com/RDambrosio016/RSLint
- volta - https://github.com/volta-cli/volta
Even at the early stage of development, these tools have shown better performance compared to their counterparts written in JavaScript.
esbuild performance comparison,
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