“Announcing X, a <rewrite of something that already exists> in (<rust>|<go>|<whatever>)”. We have so many of these announcements these days. But most people don’t care at all about the language tools are written in. What does the tool do that the standard implementation doesn’t?
When you buy a tool, do you care about what brand of industrial machinery the factory used to shape it? Nobody does. All you care about is what the tool does.
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To be fair, the closer analogy would be "what materials it's made of" and yeah, I usually do care about that.
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The materials it’s made of would be a feature.
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