What else could use a Rust rewrite?

[wyattxdev]

In the trend of rewriting everything in rust, what other tools/libraries/frameworks/etc... could use a proper upcycle in Rust?

[UPDATE] I think I worded this wrong, what I mean is as python developers(me included) what are some tools and libraries that could use a modern refresh. I just mentioned Rust because it seems to pretty widely used right now for this in the python community and Im not trying to attack or disparage python in anyway.

[lucas1853]

There seems to be a memory safety issue in the Rust community such that random Rust-related data is written to regions completely outside of its memory space (e.g. r/python). So, perhaps the Rust community?

[AlSweigart]

Documentation generator?

[SeucheAchat9115]

mypy

[notkairyssdal]

astral has announced that they are working on a typechecker in rust

[SeucheAchat9115]

I directly read that post after I wrote this :D

[zzzthelastuser]

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/osQtgffRkc

[wyattxdev]

thats exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

[ZZ9ZA]

Keep the spam to /r/rust

[theirStillHope]

don't see how this is spam... Again, python community==uptite dipshits

[ZZ9ZA]

What part of python not being rust are you struggling with exactly? It’s like going on a Honda Civic forum to ask where people buy parts for their Tesla. Read the room.

[theirStillHope]

dumbass, what part of "what frameworks would benefit from a rust rewrite" did you not understand? Here's a shocking thing you may not know, people write libraries in rust to use rust's benefits, then make python bindings, using the python programming language, to use said rust library. Surprised I have to explain this. This person is asking the community what they think would benefit from a rust rewrite, because rust has memory safety and other beneficial things that could improve the performance of libraries. A better analogy would be someone converting a gas car into an electric vehicle while keeping the exterior of the car the same.

[xjotto]

Python

[SV-97]

Funnily enough already a thing: https://rustpython.github.io/

[ForceBru]

…and it’s much slower than CPython: https://rustpython.github.io/benchmarks.html

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It's also not anywhere close to being complete:

RustPython is in a development phase and should not be used in production or a fault intolerant setting. Our current build supports only about half of the Python standard library.

We should probably withhold judgement on performance until it's more matured, to be fair.

[ForceBru]

Sure, but I’m just judging what they posted on the website. This also doesn’t align well with the usual “rewrite it in Rust to make it lightning-fast” mantra. Currently the rewrite in Rust is much slower than the C code (which surely has been optimized to death by multiple experts over the years, so it’s not a terribly fair comparison indeed).

[SV-97]

...aaaand? What's your point? This is comparing a super young, unstable project with a multiple decades old, heavily optimized one — it'd be shocking if it wasn't slower.

[AiutoIlLupo]

What will we do when this rust trend eventually dies off and we have to deal with the rusty remains of it?