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Cloudflare's experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler claims up to 8x speed and about 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, with the code written by frontier models in days.
A TypeScript team member says much of the speed is not language choice, and some of it is already landing in TypeScript 7.1.
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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.
