alt Hacker NewsOutsider question: why use Rollup when Esbuild exist? Is esbuild not enough for production builds?
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rk06 • today at 10:26 AM
it is not. lack of plugin support is sufficient to block adoptions among other things.
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Outsider question: why use Rollup when Esbuild exist? Is esbuild not enough for production builds?
it is not. lack of plugin support is sufficient to block adoptions among other things.
also since typescript is being ported to go and rolldown is rust, they're stuck using IPC, so they miss out on native stuff like type awareness that a pure go toolchain would get for free