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this is, by a wide margin, the most lavishly cinematic account of rollup's history www.youtube.com/watch?v=azk-... (assembled from bits of footage leftover from a forthcoming vite documentary that i got to be a part of)

youtube.comThe Story of Rollup with Rich HarrisYouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

rich harris

@rich-harris.dev

17 June 2025

it is also very incomplete, of course, as origin stories often are — i worked on the project for a couple of years a decade ago before smarter and more accomplished developers took the lead (in particular @lukas.taegert-atkinson.net)

rich harris

@rich-harris.dev

when i think about rolldown.rs and how it advertises a 'Rollup-compatible API' i think about the space shuttle and roman horses' butts astrodigital.org/space/stshor.... happy i got to build the chariot all those years ago

rolldown.rsRolldown | Rust bundler for JavaScriptFast Rust-based bundler for JavaScript with Rollup-compatible API

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Ricky Munroe

@rnm.io

17 June 2025

Fwiw from what I remember the horse butt -> rocket thing is an old myth www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispell...

tastesofhistory.co.ukDispelling Some Myths: Romans, Railways and NASA rocketsYet another urban myth re-appeared on social media the other day, one which regularly does the rounds and has done so for many years since about 1937. In essence a series of connections are made to es...

Matt Kane

@mk.gg

18 June 2025

Most of those points are compelling, but the part about old, cart-width ruts not being an issue isn't correct. My dad used to live in a village in northern Portugal where they still used ox-carts right into this century. There were deep, cart-width ruts in many of the stone-paved lanes.

Eric Clemmons, CEO of JavaScript Fatigue

@ericclemmons.com

17 June 2025

I was happier believing rich made space shuttle butts 🫣

rich harris

@rich-harris.dev

17 June 2025

ah that's a shame! it's a great story

Ricky Munroe

@rnm.io

17 June 2025

It really is!