What is Babel? And SWC?

• Acorn

  14 10,457 7.8 JavaScript

  A small, fast, JavaScript-based JavaScript parser

  

  Behind Babel is created by an Australian developer Sebastian McKenzie and now consists a small team of contributors. Babel also makes uses a polyfill library called core-js, which in turn uses a JavaScript parser, acorn.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• swc

  144 30,902 9.9 Rust

  Rust-based platform for the Web

  

  SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores. - SWC.js

• babylon

  1 1,711 10.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued PSA: moved into babel/babel as @babel/parser -->

  

  Parsing: A parser (Babylon. How fitting that Babel has a Babylon) reads the code and converts it to an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

• caniuse

  410 5,595 9.6 JavaScript

  Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

  You can always search caniuse.com to see who supports what. For example, if you search for Optional chaining operator, you will get the following Christmas-ish color coded table:

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