Oxc: Next-Gen Rust tooling | Don Isaac

Описание: The Oxc Project is a collection of high-performance JavaScript/TypeScript tools written in Rust. It comes with a parser, a linter, and other build-time libraries and utilities. But didn’t these already exist? Why did we need to rewrite them in another language?

Great questions! This talk will walk through the incredible performance and interoperability opportunities of moving shared web dev tooling to a native-speed language like Rust. You’ll see both how to use these wonderfully fast new tools in your project to unlock speedy and reliable builds immediately.

Even better, you’ll also get an insider’s view of how these projects are built. There’s all sorts of fantastic engineering at play, ranging from re-using test suites from Babel and TypeScript themselves to community-oriented integration tests to ensure compatibility. The end result is a rich set of community tooling for the Rust ecosystem that is a joy to work with.

00:00 in this talk…
00:35 what is Oxc?
03:07 who’s using Oxc?
04:08 why use Oxc: reliability
04:36 why use Oxc: it’s easy to use
05:55 why use Oxc: it’s super fast
06:40 how is Oxc so fast?
08:20 multithreaded linting
08:48 why are we building Oxc?
09:58 the 2nd era of JavaScript (ES5 on)
10:53 where we are now
12:17 losing the plot on JavaScript’s UX
12:29 betting on infrastructure-level Rust
13:49 void(0)
14:40 audience questions and answers

My name is Don, and I work on next-gen tooling for finding incorrect code both statically and dynamically. I currently work on both Oxc and an autonomous UI testing agent, and have been writing code for over 10 years.

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