But why? It seems weird to choose your tools based on the language they are implemented in. I love Rust (it is my goto language) but I choose my tools based on what they do, not how they were implemented.
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For a free software user, the language the tool is implemented in matters because it makes exercising the four freedoms easier.
Tools written in Rust are generally both performant and correct (few runtime crashes or other programming bugs). There arent many other languages with this combination of advantages.
That seems like a big leap. I have seen many performant and buggy Rust tools.
But either way, if your goal is to find tools that are performant and correct why not call it fastreliableyour.life? Focus on the actual direct benefits rather than implying them and excluding other tools that may fit your needs.
Of course you are free to create such a website.
I will add an other perspective that is rarely mentioned: because it pollutes less. The same way you would say why choose a car based on the fuel type it uses.
See if you consider the amount of energy wasted running interpreted languages and other fancy bloated runtimes, and consider what should we do in an ideal world where hamans respect nature and do not make things for the sole purpose of profit, then choosing your tools based on the amount of energy they use to run doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.