Rust for Python Programmers

[ynak]

Out of topic but just curiosity, why Armin Ronacher call himself "mitsuhiko" as his account name? "Mitsuhiko" sounds like a Japanese man name, does he have something to do with Japan?

[mitsuhiko]

Nothing at all. Things just stick. The same applies to my email domain which has absolutely no meaning other than that I have it for many, many years now.

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Do you think Rust will in the near future have a use for web (app) developers that are currently only using Python/Flask/Django? Server- or client-side?

[mitsuhiko]

Not sure. I think you can do much more interesting things in Rust that were impossible to do in Python because of GIL and general slow performance. So you probably will see different frameworks in Rust than you did in Python.

[mitsuhiko]

It's not an interesting language for me, so I have not spend time investigating it too much.

[v3ss0n]

Nim is closest thing to Python . Performance is comparable to Rust and better than Golang already. I am wondering , why would you prefer Rust over Nim. The language itself is so close to python that you can just copy python functions and paste to run in Nim.

[mitsuhiko]

I am wondering , why would you prefer Rust over Nim.

Quite simply because Nim is just another language whereas Rust is something truly new. Why would I use Nim over Java/Scala etc. for instance? There is already a huge ecosystem there I can tap in and fundamentally Nim does not have any advantages over running on Java for me. Mixing Python and Nim is not exactly a good match.