For those who have not heard of Rspack, it's a 1:1 port of Webpack to Rust.But, did you know that rspack is actually the 4th iteration of native bundlers our team has designed, and it originally started out as a plugin for esbuild. In its development, we have rewritten esbuild & rollup in rust, taken apart parcel to understand it better, and overall have reviewed every bundler on the market during the development of rspack before finally picking the webpack api design for the project as it is known today.
In this talk I will share the behind the scenes of its creation, why we built it, what the future for rspack looks like, and our own experience + business data we have gathered with it in supermassive projects at ByteDance.
