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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learningduck@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
So cool. Curious, Why do they need to specify that the project has to be implemented in Rust?
LPThinker@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
If I had to guess the motivation, it would probably be that:
learningduck@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
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.
lysdexic@programming.dev · -3 pts · 2y
Possibly because some people think that, much like MongoDB, Rust is web scale.
Colloidal@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
In case someone stumbles upon this now, Prettier got caught running a crypto miner on users' computers: https://programming.dev/post/28214590
neme@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Colloidal@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
Well spotted. https://securityonline.info/malicious-vscode-extensions-caught-mining-crypto-with-xmrig/ This news article has a link to this listing: https://app.extensiontotal.com/report/prettierteam.prettier
Notably, the developer name is different.