alt Hacker NewsI love it starts with the usual hand waving,
> This is an experimental, work-in-progress port of React Compiler to Rust. ...
And then gets merged.
So after the craziness to use node on the backend, we are back to using compiled languages to compile Javascript assets and Web resources, just like Java and .NET were doing in the 2000's, however since it is Go and Rust it is cool, not the boring languages grandpas were using on their heyday.
TBF there is an advantage to having a tool like this being a native binary in Rust or Go, which are rather smaller, faster to start up and don't need a runtime like the JVM or .NET. It's also a lot more "web native" than Java applets were.
I'm not sad to see the pendulum swing away from "javascript everywhere" though.