Prettier, a JavaScript code formatter, has seen an incredible adoption thanks to its careful handling of the very, very, long tail of ways people can write code. At this point, the formatting logic has been solid and after our work on [ternaries](https://prettier.io/blog/2023/11/13/curious-ternaries) lands, it will be in a happy state.
  • @learningduck
    3•7 months ago

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

    • Thinker
      6•7 months ago

      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•7 months 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.

    • @lysdexicOPEnglish
      -3•7 months ago

      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.