Vite team claims 10-30x faster builds with Rolldown

Vite 8.0 has been released with Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup. Rolldown is a Rust-based bundler built on top of Oxc, also written in Rust, and the Vite team claims it delivers 10-30x faster builds than Rollup while matching esbuild's performance. New features include DevTools for build analysis, Wasm support in SSR, and browser console log forwarding. Future plans include a full bundle mode promising 3x faster dev server startup and 10x fewer network requests. Rolldown joins a broader trend of Rust-based JS build tools including Turbopack and Rspack, as native-code tooling increasingly dominates the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.