> One question you are probably wondering is why would the Prettier team fund another project!? In practice, Prettier has been the dominant code formatter for JavaScript and as a result of a lack of competition, there has been little incentive to push on performance and fix various edge cases.
I was indeed wondering that but the answer doesn't really answer the question for me. Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Or is the end goal to shut down the Prettier project and encourage people to switch to the Rust based one? Seems like an unnecessary fragmentation of an already confusing landscape.
I was indeed wondering that but the answer doesn't really answer the question for me. Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Or is the end goal to shut down the Prettier project and encourage people to switch to the Rust based one? Seems like an unnecessary fragmentation of an already confusing landscape.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something though.