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Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web

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29Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
23.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year29 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-02-27 05:07:47 UTC to 2026-04-14 13:55:45 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 3 submissions, 11 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14311
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Biome formats and lints your JavaScript and TypeScript code in a fraction of a second. Biome is the community successor of Rome [0]. As part of the announcement of Biome [1], we have released the first stable version of Biome [2], which includes many bug fixes and new features! Join us on our Discord [3] to share the excitement of the launch! I am one of the main maintainers of Biome. I will be happy to answer any question :) [0] https://github.com/rome/tools [1] https://biomejs.dev/blog/annoucing-biome [2] https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v1 [3] https://discord.com/invite/BypW39g6Yc
In Biome
I have no idea how true this is, but the source of the claim seems to come from here: https://github.com/rome/tools/discussions/4302 "But in short, the company Rome Tools ran out of funding, so the core team of last year are no longer working on the project." Of course this also seems to be second-hand information, as there is an "Anyone feel free to correct me" disclaimer at the end of the message above.
In JavaScript Gom Jabbar
For now, Rome implements most of the ESLint recommended rules (including TypeScript ESLint) and some additional rules that are enabled by default. In the future, you can expect a recommended preset that is a superset of the ESLint recommended preset. So if you're not heavily customising ESLint, you should be able to use Rome. Otherwise, most of the rules are not fine-tunable in the way that ESLint is. Rome tries to provide the experience that Prettier provided in the formatting landscape: good defaults for a near-zero configuration experience. It tries to adopt the conventions of the JS/TS community. Still, some configuration is provided when the community is divided on some opinions (e.g. space vs. tab indentation, semicolons or as-needed semicolons, ...). There is an open issue [1] for listing equivalent rules between ESLint and Rome. E
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xpect more documentation in the future, and maybe a migration tool. If I had been one of the founders of Rome, I could have pushed for more compatibility with ESLint. In particular, using the same naming conventions and thus the same names for most rules, and recognising ESLint ignore comments. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/3892
In Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON
I am talking about compilation speed. I recently started working with Rust for contributing to projects like Rome/tools [1] and deno_lint [2]. My first impression with Rust is a bit frustrating: compilation takes tens of seconds or minutes. I am waiting in front of my IDE to get type hints / go-to def (often to fall-back to a text search). When I am launching unit tests, I am waiting that rust-analyzer terminates its indexing, and then I am waiting again that the tests compile… The tools are now mature, and a lot of engineering work is done on both rust compiler and rust-analyzer. I am afraid that the slow compilation of Rust is rooted to its inherent complexity. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno_lint
In Considering C99 for Curl
So I don't agree with GP poster that there's no reason to use spaces for indentation, but Rome recently switched to using tabs for accessibility reasons: https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/425 (Especially look at the Reddit thread linked from that issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t... ) (The problem is that people with visual impairment disabilities benefit a lot from being able to customize tab widths.)
In Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)

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