> Are you switching to Rust tools because they are written in rust/ benefit from Rust in some unique way, or because it's a common platform people are re-implem

> Are you switching to Rust tools because they are written in rust/ benefit from Rust in some unique way, or because it's a common platform people are re-implementing and re-imagining classic UNIX tools in? I think it's a little bit of both for me. The Rust tools tend to have a nicer UX (pretty-printing, colouring by default, with smart detection whether output is to a terminal, subcommand-oriented CLI a la git, etc). This is probably a consequence of nice library defaults but also a matter of culture. They also tend to be very fast. Again, Rust is inherently inducive to writing fast tools, but you also have to do things the right way.