# Oxlint

20 Hacker News commenters recommended Oxlint and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a much faster, near drop-in ESLint replacement. Caveat: it catches only a subset of errors and lacks full type-aware plugin support.

## Why people recommend it

- Much faster than ESLint (6 comments): "Instead of talking about hypothetical Oxlint and Oxfmt performance improvements, I had both benchmarked against ESLint and Prettier within the hour." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271883)) "the time to process a codebase went from like way over a minute with the old tools to a few seconds with theirs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213884)) "Literally a 300x speed improvement on our monorepo compared to eslint for the same ruleset." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974279))
- Near drop-in ESLint replacement (4 comments): "You can replace eslint and prettier with Biome or Oxlint + Oxfmt." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564820)) "It's a a faster, simpler, near drop-in replacement for eslint." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113911)) "eslint/prettier with oxlint/oxfmt" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244539))
- Works well with Vite ecosystem (3 comments): "I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760812)) "Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761450)) "Extremely happy user of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762400))
- Default rules and configs work (2 comments): "It has all the rules I usually need and the configs etc. tend to just work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843734)) "Type-aware rule are indeed not marked as stable but work like a charm." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071223))

## What people warn about

- Plugins lack type-aware rule support (2 comments): "Can't yet- at least not fully without the custom rule API" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102395)) "oxlint only supports plugins for non type aware rules" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069384))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruff](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruff.md): 115 recommend
- [Clippy (Rust linter)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clippy.md): 58 recommend
- [ESLint](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eslint.md): 32 recommend
- [Biome](https://hackerapproved.com/p/biome.md): 23 recommend
- [ShellCheck](https://hackerapproved.com/p/shellcheck.md): 19 recommend

## Cite as

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