[merlinsbrain]

> Why start if you have no intention to see it through

The author had a threshold of good feedback they needed from the community in a certain amount of time. They got the feedback they needed - people aren't interested in it, probably because of the latter part of your comment.

I don't think that's a valid reason to ask why someone started a thing, people start things for a variety of reasons. As far as I am concerned, they saw the development of a reimplementation of solid tech through and learned a lot from it.

> they already have a VM for BEAM and it works well. Without an additional selling point 'now in Rust' doesn't cut it.

This is spot on though.