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Don't miss what happened in the last weeks - tsdown is now part of VoidZero - Vite Devtools Sneak Peek - oxc-minify in Rolldown - rolldown-vite improvements - ViteConf Speaker Overview - Upcoming meetup in San Francisco - Goxc and Godown More in this thread 👇

tsdown, the spiritual successor to tsup, is now part of the VoidZero family! 🎉 @sxzz.dev will be working on the library bundling solution based on @rolldown.rs, which serves as a foundation for Vite’s library mode. bsky.app/profile/sxzz...

`oxc-minify` is now the recommended minifier when using @rolldown.rs! While continuously tweaking the performance, the minifier is already outperforming `esbuild` in terms of speed and size. Check out the benchmark by @hirok.io for perf comparison. github.com/privatenumbe...

Does this mean minifier is production ready? 👀

A lot of projects use it in prod and getting similar results size-wise and way better results speed-wise. There are still quite some optimizations planned but nothing should stop you from using it!

Personally, the main concern about changing the minifier would be its stability (the potential of getting incorrectly minified code). I experienced many minification bugs before when moving to SWC minifier, and it was true pain to debug these kinds of issues, due to the nature of minifier issues 😵‍💫

I fully understand that. On the other hand, if nobody uses the minifer, stability will be difficult to reach and issues might not be uncovered. Also, it is more likely that you hit a panic than a minification issue itself given that oxc-minify tests against terser fixtures (amongst others) as well