> The fact that Rust is used is uninteresting, considering there's nothing special about it as it pertains to the other advertised features.
Considering the fact that a programming language's appeal is directly influenced by the size and accomplishments of its community, I'd say it's relevant.
A high level, systems programming, relative new language is used to write software that outperforms the default tools. That's proof that the language has potential and encourages people to try it out. It's how languages and communities grow. If you think it's uninteresting, that's your subjective opinion, and you're free to dismiss it. It certainly doesn't make the language, the project or the title "bullshit" or "trivia relevant only to [...] language flamewars".
There is nothing interesting about the performance improvement that is a product of using a particular language, and particularly this language. It may as well have been written in Java or Haskell.
Speak for yourself. I would love to see someone write a Java or Haskell tool (where the proportion of Rust code in this tool is similar to the proportion of Java/Haskell code in this hypothetical tool) that could compete in a similar set of use cases. I would learn a lot from it.
> There is nothing interesting about the performance improvement that is a product of using a particular language, and particularly this language.
I said it's "proof that the language has potential and encourages people to try it out". But you seem biased against it ("and particularly this language"), which makes for a poor argument.
>A high level, systems programming, relative new language is used to write software that outperforms the default tools.
It does stretch “the alternative” meaning on it and only then outperforms, actually. But it is not a tool alternative, it is alternative to few use cases, which could be improved by contributing to original projects, but instead they do blind fragmentation. Efforts spent meaninglessly and destructively from the unix community pov.
Take a good tool, call it slow, incompatibly rewrite one option optimized to hell, present as an alternative in rust, take rust hype, cv points, attention, hate from those who understand what is done. Take it all, be a man.
> Efforts spent meaninglessly and destructively from the unix community pov.
I think the unix phylosophy Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features". is better applied by this `fd` tool than `find`.
If some else replaces the set of features offered by `find` with other, faster, rust tools the effort would be quite welcomed.
> take rust hype, cv points, attention,
You're welcome to add to your CV all the ways you can use find.
