• Thinker@lemmy.world
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      If I had to guess the motivation, it would probably be that:

      • Rust is a systems language known for performance and correctness, which makes it a good candidate for their stated goal of having a competitor to encourage performance and correctness within Prettier
      • Rust is popular and relatively well-known among open source developers, more so than any comparable language except maybe Go
      • Rust is a hip language that probably added some free publicity to their announcement
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        That’s clever. Now Zig or any language that wants to compete with Rust would want to to come up with a better project to take the fame.

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      So cool. Curious, Why do they need to specify that the project has to be implemented in Rust?

      Possibly because some people think that, much like MongoDB, Rust is web scale.