☂️ Roadmap for a Rust-based compiler

[layershifter]

💡 This issue will be updated as we go.

TL;DR

We want to have nice, modern and blazing fast compiler ⚡ We aim to support Linaria & Griffel.

Dev design

TBD

Initial context could be found there, microsoft/griffel#621.

API design

We will continue to expose processors as the interface. Processors will implement actual transforms and should be written in Rust. We will continue provide plugins/loaders for bundlers.

We expect that the usage will look like that:

// vite.config.ts
import wyw from '@wyw-in-js/plugins/vite'
import linaria from '@linaria/wyw'

export default {
  plugins: [wyw(linaria, { /* some options */ })],
}

Roadmap

TBD

[nstepien]

Does that mean Linaria will finally stop trying to evaluate modules? 😮

[paulm17]

When targeting Vite. Will voidzero be used? I hear a lot of talk about simplifying things re: transforms, etc.

[brijeshb42]

Is this open for contribution ?

[layershifter]

Does that mean Linaria will finally stop trying to evaluate modules? 😮

@nstepien nope, we will continue to evaluate modules, but the goal is to make it faster and simpler.

When targeting Vite. Will voidzero be used? I hear a lot of talk about simplifying things re: transforms, etc.

@paulm17 not sure that I got it.

We will use OXC toolkit (parser, resolver, transformer) as our core dependency as OXC is funded by voidzero.

Is this open for contribution ?

@brijeshb42 yes.

You will see some Rust code making its path to the main branch soon. The current problem that we don't have something working end to end 🙃

I plan to solve this soon and also add more clarify on the plan, but I don't want to make broken promises for now.

[paulm17]

@paulm17 not sure that I got it.

If you hear Evan talk about how voidzero operates compared to the current paradigm. You'll understand. 😄 But regardless, you answered my question.

The last time I looked at OXC was in the summer and found the transform wasn't feature complete. So much so that Next-Yak went with SWC.

I've been watching this space with interest. So excited to see how this will all unfold.

[nstepien]

nope, we will continue to evaluate modules, but the goal is to make it faster and simpler.

That's a shame, module evaluation is the biggest pain point with using Linaria: it leads to build failures and slow builds.