#rolldown

The Vite 8 beta drops ESBuild and Rollup in favor of Rolldown, signaling a full Rust-based future for the JavaScript build toolchain. What changes, what breaks, and why it matters.

VoidZero's Vite+ promises to unify runtime, package manager, bundler, linter, formatter, and test runner under a single command. We read the announcements, benchmarked the claims, and talked to people using it in production. Here is what we found.