# Zack Jackson - ByteDance, rspack, and the Future of Web Development

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Published: 2025-04-21T00:24:41+00:00
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## Resource

This week we're once again joined by Zach Jackson, creator of Module Federation, and now core team member of ByteDance's rspack project. In this episode we talk about the bundler landscape, the future of web development, and how rspack is changing the game. https://x.com/rspack_dev https://x.com/ScriptedAlchemy https://rspack.dev/ Episode sponsored By WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) and MailTrap ( https://l.rw.rw/devtools_1 ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

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