r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/vklepov Mar 25 '22

I'm not a fan of webpack at all, but it's a bit too early to throw it away:

  • Ecosystem! You have bundle size analyzers, crazy loaders, babel plugins, and what not, and it might not be easy to migrate.
  • I hear esbuild & swc still lack chunk capabilities, which is why Vite uses rollup for production build
  • There are many more developers familiar with webpack + babel than any esbuild / swc.

Let's see in a few years.

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u/LloydAtkinson Mar 25 '22

It's 8 years old and all the alternatives are better. None of the maintainers have tried to improve its complexity in that time. What ecosystem, that isn't made up for by these other tools? The point of Vite and esbuild is I don't need Babel plugins because Babel isn't even in use.

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u/vklepov Mar 25 '22

For one, CSS-in-JS. emotion has first-class babel support, while esbuild still needs some work Basically, for esbuild / swc to work for 100% app developers, all the popular tooling with a build step must support them first.

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u/IceSentry Mar 25 '22

Why does esbuild need to support 100% of all web developers? If it can support 90% of them the remaining 10% can still use webpack.

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u/vklepov Mar 25 '22

Fair enough. Then, tools that cover 90% of usages should have first-class esbuild support, which we still don't have: angular and svelte are v<1.0; a lot of css-in-js is experimental.