[dimitrisnl]

Any release will definitely not restore Webpack as the "first choice". That ship has sailed and Webpack has accumulated a lot of bad rep.

Maybe for a few people who used to run Webpacker in Rails, and migrated to shakapacker instead of Vite, it will be good news.

When a tool like this (which was never pleasant to work with) loses the lead, it never restores it.

[narukeu]

According to your view, is Webpack becoming "the next jQuery" merely a matter of time?

[dimitrisnl]

Nothing wrong with jQuery. If a dev dependency irks me, I have no reason to revisit it no matter how better it got. We moved on.