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.
  • Thinker@lemmy.world
    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@programming.dev
      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.