Why Rust?

There were several factors deciding to use Rust to write the csv++ compiler:

• Fast
• Fearless concurrency. Compiling a spreadsheet cell-by-cell can take advantage of concurrency, so we needed a language that can support it.
• Can build for native compilation targets. We want to be able to distribute the compiler with zero or minimal dependencies (preferably no runtime) and compile a static binary for each target OS.
• Spreadsheet library support. We need to be able to write Excel files and to the Google Sheets API which means we need a language that has libraries to support that.