Turbopack is adding support for webpack loaders.

This should be available in Next.js canaries starting next week @turborepo This means Turbopack will work with babel, less, scss, postcss, svgr, mdx, and more. @wSokra + team are mad scientists. To get this to work, they built a custom IPC layer to talk with child node.js processes from Rust. The same layer is also used to read next.config.js 🤯

After joining @vercel and launching @turborepo, @wSokra presented me with a vision of what a next gen bundler and build system could be. What if there was no distinction? What if you could parallelize and cache work all the way at down to the function level?

🧵 There are two ways to make a process faster: do less work or do work in parallel. We knew if we wanted to make the fastest bundler possible, we’d need to pull hard on both levers.

So we created a new low-level Turbo engine for incremental (and soon distributed) computation.