Oxlint: JS Linter That's Actually Fast Enough to Matter

So here's the thing about my last Biome blog post, the comments section(on Reddit) turned into a mini war zone. Not the angry kind, thankfully. More like the curious kind. Everyone wanted to know about Oxlint and how it stacks up against Biome. Fair enough. Let's talk about it. What Even Is Oxlint? Oxlint is a JavaScript/TypeScript linter written in Rust. It's part of this bigger thing called Oxc (Oxidation Compiler) that Evan You's company VoidZero is building. You know Evan, the guy who made Vue and Vite. Reached v1.0 stable in June 2025 after about 18 months of development and help from 200+ contributors. It's not some side project anymore, companies like Shopify, Airbnb, Mercedes-Benz, Linear, and Framer are using it in production. The pitch is simple: ESLint, but way faster. Like, ridiculously faster. The Performance Numbers (With Receipts) Okay, let's get into the benchmarks. I'm pulling these from Oxc's official benchmark repository so you can verify this yourself. Oxlint vs ESL