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1. Instead of talking about hypothetical Oxlint and Oxfmt performance improvements, I had both benchmarked against ESLint and Prettier within the hour.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Labor Market Impacts of AI”

2. the time to process a codebase went from like way over a minute with the old tools to a few seconds with theirs

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)”

3. I love Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and look in their direction for most of my new projects!

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

4. Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

5. Literally a 300x speed improvement on our monorepo compared to eslint for the same ruleset.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend”

6. then you install Oxlint and Oxfmt and are surprised to find out that it takes SECONDS

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)”

7. Extremely happy user of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

8. It has all the rules I usually need and the configs etc. tend to just work

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “TypeScript 7”

9. Type-aware rule are indeed not marked as stable but work like a charm.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

10. You can replace eslint and prettier with Biome or Oxlint + Oxfmt.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling”

11. It's a a faster, simpler, near drop-in replacement for eslint.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “The Future of Obsidian Plugins”

12. drop-in replacements where we get 10x with little effort

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised”

13. eslint -> oxlint (but in rust, and fast)

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

14. eslint/prettier with oxlint/oxfmt

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?”

15. `eslint` replaced by `oxlint`

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “From 88 to 24 Seconds: Drop-In Replacements That Cut CI/CD Runtime by over Half”

16. Can't yet- at least not fully without the custom rule API

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript”

17. oxlint only supports plugins for non type aware rules

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

18. oxlint and some general ast-grep rules have pretty much been an absolute necessity for any of my LLM based code generation

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript”

19. the jank levels seem to generally be decreasing with every next attempt to get things right

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

20. Oxlint supports JS plugins and is ESLint compatibel (can run ESLint rules easily)

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

21. Oxlint does support core rules out of the box but has support for JS plugins

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

22. It sucks, but at least a subset of errors are caught much faster.

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

23. would be more impactful for the average TS project I've worked on

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up”

24. I'm personally using both oxlint for typescript

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript”

25. compatible with its file format and ultra fast

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Vite+ Beta”

26. Every millisecond of time saved will be out the window the first time someone is stuck dealing with an edge case

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI”

27. The tsgo and oxlint LSP servers kept crashing, which was frustrating.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Zed is 1.0”