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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ diagnostic error code: ruget::api::bad_json
   - [... in application code](#-in-application-code)
   - [... in `main()`](#-in-main)
   - [... snippets](#-snippets)
+- [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
 - [License](#license)
 
 ## Features
@@ -258,6 +259,24 @@ pub struct MyErrorType {
 }
 ```
 
+## Acknowledgements
+
+`miette` was not developed in a void. It owes enormous credit to various other projects and their authors:
+
+- [`anyhow`](http://crates.io/crates/anyhow) and
+  [`color-eyre`](https://crates.io/crates/color-eyre): these two enormously
+  influential error handling libraries have pushed forward the experience of
+  application-level error handling and error reporting. `miette`'s
+  `DiagnosticReport` type is an attempt at a very very rough version of their
+  `Report` types.
+- [`thiserror`](https://crates.io/crates/thiserror) for setting the standard
+  for library-level error definitions, and for being the inspiration behind
+  `miette`'s derive macro.
+- `rustc` and [@estebank](https://github.com/estebank) for their state-of-the-art
+  work in compiler diagnostics.
+- [`ariadne`](https://crates.io/crates/ariadne) for pushing forward how
+  _pretty_ these diagnostics can really look!
+
 ## License
 
 `miette` is released to the Rust community under the [Apache license 2.0](./LICENSE).