hzoo

> "a commons is a space which is established by custom. It can not be regulated by law. The law would never be able to give sufficient details to regulate a commons."

It's true, speed is not really a concern on my mind at the moment - rather that we have enough people even willing to contribute back at all

I would recommend using the benchmark at https://github.com/v8/web-tooling-benchmark in the future if it's currently not possible since currently it only seems to be testing ES5 (jquery.min.js) for the parser and a short ES6 snippet for the transforms.

In terms of perf, I'm sure rust will be much faster than JS. And this project's main goal is to be a faster version than Babel. I would suggest the perf test would be different though because it's testing code I would consider not to be representative of what Babel actually runs on. Example with the transform test: https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/222bdc191fcab7714319... it's a very small file with minimal transforms even necessary at all. And the parser test is for all minified js files, none of which are written in ES6+ https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/master/ecmascript/pa.... Currently it's not really testing ES6+, just how at a baseline it's much faster to process a ES5 file, so it's possible that it might be even faster.

edit: I will note that Babel does a lot more than what this project is doing currently (plugins, other proposals, ts/flow, sourcemaps, etc) but this is more about what could be so if people are willing to more on this effort in the long run (with funding/support/people) it could be super useful! I'm curious about how that will work when our project has such a struggle with contributors and Babel itself is written in JS. (I work on Babel :D)

> Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

> These are virtues of passion. They are not, however, virtues of community. The virtues of community sound like their opposites: diligence, patience, and humility.

> They're not really opposites, because you can do them all at the same time. It's another matter of perspective. These are the virtues that have brought us this far. These are the virtues that will carry our community into the future, if we do not abandon them.