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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] learningduck 1 points 1 year ago

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.