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These rewrites in rust are merely just training exercises for those doing it. It wasn't needed and in most cases isnt used.
That's pretty useful alone.
And there's this:
They did it "for the vibes"
It was needed to safely further support for concurrent features? If they follow through on adding that support, there will likely be adoption.
The problem is in most cases the implementers stop at "same thing but in rust" without taking advantage of that.
I can't fully blame them since just duplicating an existing thing is a huge undertaking.
Angry downvotes because people don't like to hear that a meme language is a meme language.
Meme language? It was not rewritten in Javascript.
Probably not "angry" downvotes. OP provided a link where it's explained exactly why the switch was made. Even if you don't care for Rust it's pretty clear that this was done with more purpose than just "Ooo let's make it in Rust for fun"
And even if it was for fun, that would still be valid. The project is run by volunteers. If they don't have fun, they stop doing it.
Didn't this "meme language" ship in a recent Linux kernel?
You clearly don't know what a meme language is.