# Oxc

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Oxc and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Rust-based JavaScript tooling, including a transformer that people find much faster than Babel or SWC. Critics report it is still alpha in places and mishandles some edge cases.

## Why people recommend it

- Much faster than Babel and SWC (3 comments): "Tried oxc's transformer more recently on the same codebase and it shaved off another 30-40% on top of SWC" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120771)) "That's where I saw the biggest speedup, because developers of them decided to use a compiled language" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125660)) "OXC Transformers are amazingly faster than Babel" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570809))
- Praised as a growing ecosystem (3 comments): "the whole ecosystem around OXS looks very promising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077591)) "Oxc ecosystem is still impressive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981588)) "I use oxc tooling and it's great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167405))

## What people warn about

- Missing or unfinished features (2 comments): "Yes, those work fine: the playground shows constructor parameter properties and enums working, but standardized ECMAScript decorators are simply passed through as-is." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361224)) "It doesn't support const enum" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362135))
- Odd behavior in edge cases (2 comments): "I found the ox stuff to do weird things to my code when it was in weird edge case states" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118586)) "sometimes oxc complains about JSX in JS when running vite, but it still works fine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364923))
- Concerns about team conduct (2 comments): "This is not acceptable, and not how open source works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801971)) "I’d be very cautious in trusting this team." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793109))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [React Compiler](https://hackerapproved.com/p/react-compiler.md): 10 recommend
- [SWC](https://hackerapproved.com/p/swc.md): 8 recommend
- [Google Closure Compiler](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-closure-compiler.md): 6 recommend
- [Babel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/babel.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Oxc", https://hackerapproved.com/p/oxc/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).