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JavaScript's midlife crisis: the ecosystem won, but developers are losing control of the toolchain
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JavaScript 满 30 岁了，生态比以往都大，但它的打包工具、格式化工具、linter 正在被 Rust、Go、Zig 重写。作者说，用 Rust 重写一个 bundler 能快 10 倍，但代价是能看懂并维护这些工具的 JS 开发者变少了。源码还是开源的，但贡献的门槛在变高。文章没给解决方案，只提了个醒：速度不是免费的，我们正在用可维护性换毫秒。
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Sep 23
- Hacker News front pageJavaScript's midlife crisis: the ecosystem won, but developers are losing control of the toolchain
JavaScript turns 30. The ecosystem is bigger than ever, but the toolchain is being rewritten in Rust, Go, and Zig. The author argues that rewriting a bundler in Rust makes it 10x faster, but also shrinks the pool of JS developers who can maintain it. The source is still open, but the door to contributions is closing. The post doesn't offer a fix—just a warning: speed isn't free, and we're trading maintainability for milliseconds.