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Vite 8 Ships Rust-Based Rolldown, Boosting Builds 10x
Vite 8 replaces esbuild and Rollup with a unified Rust toolchain (Rolldown and Oxc), cutting production build times by 10–30x. Linear's build dropped from 46 to 6 seconds; GitLab's shrank 7x. The update also adds native TypeScript path resolution and requires Node.js 20+.
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The performance gains are real and significant, but the real win is eliminating dev/prod semantic gaps — a long-standing pain point for teams.
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