Evan You, creator of Vue.js, introduced rolldown-vite, a new Rust-based bundler that promises significant performance advantages over traditional Vite. Companies like GitLab and Excalidraw reported notable efficiency improvements, with build times decreasing from minutes to mere seconds and memory usage cut drastically. With an emphasis on supporting plugin authors and ensuring compatibility, rolldown-vite is still in technical preview but offers initial feature parity with its predecessor. The anticipated productivity gains underline the engineering value of faster tools, potentially saving hundreds of hours annually across projects.
Given around 100 projects, an average of 600 commits per year per project, each one building and linting each time. We are talking about 500 hours saved per year, almost 21 days.
Rolldown-vite has reached initial feature parity with today's Vite, enabling companies and open-source projects to already test it with their codebase.
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