Rust works well for toolchains where speed counts and you can control deps, but it's a much bigger ask for server-side app logic where teams lean on JS and its libraries. Switching an established stack to Rust hits hiring and maintenance friction fast, especially with async and lifetime bugs. For Vite's community, requiring plugin authors to redo everything in Rust would probably destroy most of the value users care about.

I’m with you. It’s very telling when all of the tools are being rewritten and seeing orders of magnitudes of speed ups.

It just shows that people don’t value the actual performance of what they’re running.

Node as a compiler runtime or node as a runtime runtime?

This is for tooling.

Node.js has been extraordinarily useful for building build tools. We're outgrowing it's capacity and rightfully moving to a compiled language. Also faster tooling is essential for establishing a high quality feedback loop for AI agents

isnt that what projects like bun are aiming to do?