It was rewritten in Go at the time I was switching to NixOS, because the Nix package for Swift is outdated and broken. I rewrote it in Rust because I’ve been wanting to learn Rust and also fun :P

I explained this on a now-removed post to r/unixporn: Instead of using you distro’s packages and having to trust both the developers of the project and the people packaging it, wares cuts out the middleman and fetches compiled binaries directly from the GitHub repo, compiled by the developers or their CI/CD system, meaning you only have to trust one party rather than two. It also allows you to get updates for programs as soon as they release