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Biome

Biome

Fast formatter and linter for web projects

Biome is a Rust-based formatter and linter for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and CSS. Drop-in replacement for Prettier + ESLint with 10-100x better performance.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

One tool replacing Prettier + ESLint with massively better performance. The migration from existing configs is smooth.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

The speed improvement is not a micro-optimization — it changes CI feedback loops and editor responsiveness.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Rust-based tooling replacing JavaScript tools is the trend. Biome is the most impactful example.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,214 mentions
74% positive18% neutral8% negative
Hacker News458 mentions
79%14%7%

Replaced Prettier + ESLint with Biome — formatting is 50x faster and the config is actually readable

Reddit612 mentions
74%18%8%

Biome's Rust performance is not marketing — my 500k line monorepo lints in under 2 seconds now

Twitter/X940 mentions
71%21%8%

Biome 1.x is stable enough for production — migrated 3 projects and haven't looked back at ESLint

Product Hunt204 mentions
80%13%7%

One tool for formatting and linting JS/TS/JSON — the DX improvement over the Prettier+ESLint combo is real