News: JavaScript Edition! Build Tools, Date Handling APIs, and SSR

News: JavaScript Edition! Build Tools, Date Handling APIs, and SSR Benchmark Wars

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We’ve got a good show for you today! It’s chock full of new build tools, better date handling in JavaScript, and SSR benchmarks to prove which framework is truly the fastest.The rust-ification of JavaScript build tools continues, as next generation build tool Rspack hits v1 and claims it’s ready for primetime. Rspack boasts (almost) complete compatibility with the webpack API while also being 10x faster.JS dates are about to be fixed thanks to the new Temporal API proposal, which is currently...

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