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Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?
Announcing the existence of Jam – An robust JS toolchain in Zig
Compared to tools like webpack, esbuild finishes before I can lift my finger off the Enter key, and has become my default choice for building JavaScript, JSX, TypeScript, even PureScript. JavaScript linters traditionally rely on a syntax tree to analyze source code, with newer tools like Biome supporting control flow graphs. Fortunately, Zig's comptime features makes it feasible, easy even, to implement an esquery port where the queries are processed and optimized at compile time, while still being able to operate on a compact syntax tree.
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