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+# treefmt 2.0 - one CLI to format your code tree
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+## Why we rewrote it in Go
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+We have very limited time available, and want to write useful tools with it.
+Our personal experience was that Rust was slowing us down.
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+This video things up quite nicely: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwF8mG3UUY>
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