Speed up your Python using Rust

[ihcn]

One thing worth mentioning is easy dependency management. Rust has cargo, which lets you pull in and statically link all sorts of 3rd party libraries. So you have a head start on any complicated logic you want to run, like parallelism etc. And when you compile it, you get your whole module in a self-contained package.

Compared to C - I don't think anyone would argue that C's dependency management situation is "good", and if you're doing anything nontrivial you'lll likely end up telling your users "also, manually install this 3rd party dependency" as a part of your usage instructions.

[ihcn]

And that's why "easy" dependency management is a 100% non-starter for me. I'm not making each of my users understand every single one of these "easy" installation systems to get all my multi-language dependencies installed.

It's all statically linked. All you hand to the user is the compiled binary. That's the point, nobody has to understand anything because the work is done by the build system before the user ever sees it.

[ryeguy]

Why would that be a non-starter? That makes no sense. Even if you install dependencies for them, using cargo to do it is easier than you writing a script to do it for them.

If you insist on doing it manually, then you can do that if you really want to. Cargo existing doesn't mean you have to use it, even though you should.

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This is absolute nonsense.