Vite

The rewrite runs deep. The rendering engine is about 2.4x faster, and Astro moves to Vite 8 with the new Rolldown bundler, which the team clocks at 10-30x faster than Rollup. Several sites now build more than twice as fast as on v6.

But the thread caught the asterisks. Strict HTML compilation now errors on unclosed tags, which blocks upgrading any site that pulls in messy remote content. One developer reported builds that got slightly slower, not faster. And the engineer who wrote the new Rust compiler is in the thread, taking questions.

Vite+ unifies Vite 8, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint and Oxfmt plus a cached monorepo task runner, MIT-licensed. A power user already running the full stack in production reports it 'just works.'

The skeptics circled two things: why a build tool should manage your Node runtime at all ('extraordinarily opinionated'), and whether another layer over Vite's five-majors-in-four-years churn is worth it. The '+' also set off a reflex fear of monetization — though the Cloudflare acquisition may have taken that motive off the table.