FYI /u/leshow is the core contributor of this project.

We've been doing Rust before this. We've rewritten some of our core components over to Rust. Discussed a bit in this post: https://medium.techatscale.com/open-heart-surgery-from-java-...

In terms of writing a DHCP server there was research looking through Github, and the conclusion was that there is a gap in the DHCP space. DHCPd was approaching EOL (and now is EOL). Others in the DHCP industry were calling for options, and it looked like Dora could potentially fill some of those asks: https://ns1.com/blog/isc-dhcp-is-eol-what-will-replace-it