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		francisofascii on July 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vite 3.0 > Webpack is slow So it sounds like Webpack was never really mature, or too late in getting ported to Go before Vite took over?

cercatrova on July 13, 2022 [–]

The latter mainly. The biggest reason is that JS is too slow compared to other languages, especially compiled ones like Go or Rust. So writing developer tools in JS already made them slow.

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