The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more

Previous HN discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24094377" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24094377</a> (first release) and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22430682" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22430682</a> (open source)<p>Nothing has materially changed since the release announcement.

There are very old reports saying the Rome build times are quite long, longer than a day even. Has this changed?

Kind of goes without saying, but the flip side of having all of these tools under a single opinionated umbrella is that if any piece of it sucks, people are going to drop the whole toolchain. Hence this is a high risk project, especially because everything is being built from scratch.

The twitter discussion leading for the new domain and name of the project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sebmck&#x2F;status&#x2F;1319870764435316736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sebmck&#x2F;status&#x2F;1319870764435316736</a>

I tried learning this; there wasn&#x27;t documentation on even the most basic of commands, `rome develop`, which failed. Sounds like a cool project, but the learning resources are really not there.

I wrote a little bit about Rome and my thoughts about it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aralroca.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;do-all-roads-lead-to-rome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aralroca.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;do-all-roads-lead-to-rome</a><p>Hope it can be helpful to someone

Are there any plans to port it to run on Deno?

When I try and check out their new page linked from here, I&#x27;m getting a certificate error. It looks like it&#x27;s only issued for Netlify subdomains. Minor, but kinda annoying.<p>One question I have about Rome is why it tries to take on the testing framework too. I really like the idea of it having all the build tooling together, but testing seems like a sort of separate thing. Other environments I&#x27;ve used let libraries fill the gaps for testing, including JS. Is there a big advantage to pulling it into Rome?

I am very pleased with Webpack, but it definitely shows its roots as a specifically javascript bundler with other formats hacked on top. For instance, while one can have a `.css` file or `.html` file as an entry point, Webpack will nevertheless output a `.js` file with the same name for every entrypoint.<p>I will be keeping my eye on Rome

Not really important, but I love the new branding. IIRC, they were using a generic looking Spartan helmet before.

I was confused for a moment, because this has the same name as a companion tool for Carthage. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmspzz&#x2F;Rome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmspzz&#x2F;Rome</a>

I started using webpack in 2015. It&#x27;s still the tool I reach for when doing JS. It&#x27;s not going anywhere.