"Rolldown is intended to be compatible with existing plugins since it supports the same plugin API. Although it is included with Vite 8, the Rolldown project still has release candidate status, and its minification feature - where source code is reduced to a small size with strategies such as the smallest possible variable names - is in alpha."
"Rolldown is built on top of Oxc, also coded with Rust. Oxc is a utility whose features include linting, formatting, parsing, transpiling TypeScript and JSX (code to define React elements), module resolution, and minification."
"Both Rolldown and Oxc are open source projects sponsored by Void Zero, a company founded in 2024 by Evan You, creator of both Vite and the Vue.js framework. When the company was founded, You said that a unified toolchain was necessary to overcome the challenges of the JavaScript ecosystem: "fragmentation, incompatibilities, and inefficiency.""
"The Vite team claims that Rolldown is "10-30x faster than Rollup," and matches the performance of esbuild, which is also native code, though written in Go."
Vite 8.0 introduces Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler that unifies Vite's build process by replacing both esbuild and Rollup. Rolldown is built on Oxc, another Rust utility providing linting, formatting, parsing, transpiling, and minification capabilities. Both projects are open source and sponsored by Void Zero, founded by Evan You to address JavaScript ecosystem fragmentation and inefficiency. Rolldown maintains compatibility with existing plugins through the same plugin API, though its minification feature remains in alpha. Vite 8.0 also introduces DevTools for build analysis, Wasm support in SSR environments, and browser console log forwarding. The Vite team reports Rolldown performs 10-30x faster than Rollup and matches esbuild's native code performance.
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