Maintenance status of vue-loader

[niksy]

What is the status of vue-loader maintentance?

Recently it gained slight popularity since Rspack and Rsbuild are using it to power it’s Vue integration, but it seems it’s lacking in support in comparison to Vite plugin. There are a lot of open issues and PRs but it doesn’t seems like it’s maintained that well.

There’s also unplugin-vue which uses Vite plugin codebase to integrate with other bundlers, but it’s missing HMR functionality to be considered as replacement for vue-loader: unplugin/unplugin-vue#162

If Unplugin version could gain proper HMR functionality for Webpack/Rspack/Rsbuild, maybe vue-loader can be deprecated in favor of using Unplugin version?