[gmgmgmgmgm]

Yes, I'm sure rust is amazing but, Just a guess that the number of programmers that can contribute to a rust project is probably 3-4 orders of magnitude less than the number of programmers that can contribute to a JavaScript project. Well, maybe if you subtract all the "competent enough to a submit a coherent pull request" programmers the number is only 2-3 orders of magnitude?

Basically I'd assume, if a project targeted at JS, switched to rust, the number of useful pull requests would be 50-100x less.

I wonder if anyone has any data on that (and similar projects re-written in C++ or Go etc...).

[rattray]

Speaking as a contributor to Prettier, it is _not_ an easy codebase for someone who knows JS to just jump into and contribute.

Furthermore, projects like Ruff show you can have a lot of contributors for projects like this. Maybe because there are lots of devs who use TS or Python in their day job, but want excuses to use Rust on the side.

[mplanchard]

Anecdata, but as a maintainer of both Python and Rust projects, while it’s true that the Rust projects have fewer contributors/issues, the quality of contributions is on average higher