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Removing SWC

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2026-02-10

Removing SWC: Building a Custom TypeScript Parser and Minifier

Why we replaced SWC with a hand-written TypeScript parser, JSX transform, and variable name mangler — all in ~17k lines of Rust.

2026-02-09

A Fast Bundler

howth came out on top in the rolldown/benchmarks suite against bun, esbuild, rolldown, vite, rspack, and rsbuild.

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