Smoking that Rspack

Rspack 2.0 has launched, marking a shift from being 'just a faster webpack' to a broader modern JavaScript toolchain. Key highlights include ~10% faster builds vs v1.7, pure ESM core packages, improved tree shaking for CommonJS and Module Federation, and first-class agent support. The dev server dropped from 192 npm dependencies to 1. The release signals Rspack's ambition to expand beyond webpack compatibility into a general JS toolchain ecosystem including Rslib, Rsbuild, and Rsdoctor. The newsletter also covers Deno Fresh 2.3, the Angular compiler getting 20x faster via AI, Chrome's Prompt API for in-browser Gemini Nano, and an AI agent destroying production data.