--- title: Now is the best time to learn Astro | daily.dev description: Astro has reached version 7, bringing major performance improvements driven by a rewritten Rust-based compiler, a new Rust-powered Markdown/MDX pipeline,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/now-is-the-best-time-to-learn-astro-nsfr3beeo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Now is the best time to learn Astro | daily.dev og:description: Astro has reached version 7, bringing major performance improvements driven by a rewritten Rust-based compiler, a new Rust-powered Markdown/MDX pipeline,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/now-is-the-best-time-to-learn-astro-nsfr3beeo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NSfR3BEeo.png og:image:alt: Now is the best time to learn Astro og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Now is the best time to learn Astro **[Awesome](https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding)** · 9 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Astro has reached version 7, bringing major performance improvements driven by a rewritten Rust-based compiler, a new Rust-powered Markdown/MDX pipeline, stable queue-based rendering, and stabilized route caching. Build times improve by 15–61% depending on the project. The release also introduces advanced routing via a new fetch entry point, giving developers full control over the request lifecycle. Astro is now backed by Cloudflare, which also acquired VoidZero — the company behind Vite and Vue creator Evan You — signaling deeper integration between open-source JavaScript tooling and Cloudflare's infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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