[demetris]

The Rust rewrites can become tiresome, they have become a meme at this point, but there are really good tools there too.

An example from my personal experience: I used to think that oxipng was just a faster optipng. I took a closer look recently and saw that it is more than that.

See: https://op111.net/posts/2025/09/png-compression-oxipng-optip...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

If a new tool has actual performance or feature advantages, then that's the answer to "what problem does it solve", regardless of what language it's in.

[drob518]

Bingo.

[hulitu]

> but there are really good tools there too.

That's the problem. How good they are ? Who can tell ? The basic UNIX tools didn't come in "one day" like most of these "rust tools".