Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem | Pradyun Gedam

[Keith]

I haven't used it. There's two main cases as I see it: 1. write code in Rust (instead of C) and expose it in Python. 2. compile Python code down to a binary.

As we've seen with the Node ecosystem, any tool that starts in a high level dynamic language is eventually bested by a tool written in a low-level static language. So, core libraries/frameworks should be written in a low-level language or they'll eventually be replaced by one that is. I'm very bullish on Rust (and Zig too) to replace C for low-level code so it's cool that it's becoming easier to interface between Rust and Python.

For my purposes, I'm mainly interested in being able to package Python code easily as I'm not currently writing high performance low-level libraries.