I don't think it says much about the tools themselves though, it just makes sense when you look at the author's GitHub and see a bunch of Rust projects.
- Can be distributed as a single binary, not requiring an interpreter and virtual environment.
- Being more fun to make a hobby tool in due to minimal footguns compared to C/C++.
- Really good dependency management and build tool making it easy to compose these CLIs out of powerful building blocks (at east for Rust). For example, ripgrep is broken up into a lot of packages that you can compose together to make your own custom tool.
- Can be distributed as a single binary, not requiring an interpreter and virtual environment. - Being more fun to make a hobby tool in due to minimal footguns compared to C/C++. - Really good dependency management and build tool making it easy to compose these CLIs out of powerful building blocks (at east for Rust). For example, ripgrep is broken up into a lot of packages that you can compose together to make your own custom tool.