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Yeah but that future is probably a long ways off, if it ever comes at all. Currently ESBuild has 5x as many npm installs as Rome and SWC combined, and the gap doesn't seem to be shrinking https://npmtrends.com/@swc/core-vs-esbuild-vs-rome



FWIW, that doesn't take into account that Next actually has its own wrapper around SWC, and also vendors it. I think it's probably the largest consumer of SWC:

- https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/next-...

Those add up pretty fast:

- https://npmtrends.com/@next/swc-linux-x64-gnu-vs-@next/swc-w...




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