Mako: Fast, production-grade web bundler

There are so many solid web bundlers that all offer a similar feature set, I am pretty skeptical that another entry is all that beneficial. It's good to have choices, but it's become difficult to keep up with such a fragmented ecosystem. I also admit that I am biased. I started using vite a couple years ago and since then have never run into any serious issues with my frontend builds/developer experience. If the main benefit of another tool is marginal performance gains, I am thoroughly uninterested.

Mako is also a Python templating library. I have used Mako primarily since it was what reddit used to use back in 2016. Not sure if reddit still uses it.

I wasn't sure what "based on Rust" meant and looking at the announcement / GitHub etc I think they just mean that it's built in Rust. I couldn't find any commentary on or comparison to the rust language or tooling etc

If you use vanilla JS modules you can get away with no bundlers at all which greatly simplifies web projects. import statements &quot;just work&quot; in browsers, and caching of shared modules means you don&#x27;t need fancy things like chunking. Also no need for map files and such, just debug directly in browser.<p>Vanilla TS also works well if you use a server side translator like esbuild to strip out the types before serving the files in a middleware (especially if you are using a golang backend, esbuild is trivial to integrate as a middleware)

What I want is one of these bundlers and typescript compilers that are written in Rust to be runnable programmatically from e.g. a Cargo build.rs or within a web server in Rust.<p>I don&#x27;t want to install your binary separately, and I don&#x27;t want to use NPM for my project. I want to use my existing build system, and if you wrote it in Rust, it should be made to fit nicely into the Rust ecosystem.

I&#x27;m just not quite sure why &quot;speed&quot; is what be js bundlers are selling themselves on. We have a number of fast bundlers already, so that&#x27;s not what&#x27;s taking my time. DevEx is the real selling point for me, and that didn&#x27;t talk about any of their differentiators there

Surprised to not see esbuild in the comparison chart

Damn for a moment I thought this was about Marko (the frontend framework by Ebay).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markojs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markojs.com&#x2F;</a><p>They&#x27;ve been teasing v6 for years now.

FWIW, previously discussed under <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40853845">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40853845</a>