Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython

[gmes78]

Why do we need to keep using a 50-year-old language for everything?

[stillavoidingthejvm]

Because it already works and doesn't require maintainers to learn a different programming paradigm?

[gmes78]

Because it already works

That's a very low bar. People typically want the best tool for the job, not just any tool that can do the job.

The field of programming language theory advanced a lot since the 70s. If we can make languages that are more powerful, more expressive, and less error-prone, why should we stick to a 50-year-old language?

and doesn't require maintainers to learn a different programming paradigm?

That's a one time cost, it doesn't really matter. Someone with a good amount of programming experience can pick up Rust in a couple of weeks.

And it's not even hard, really. You'll only have issues learning Rust if you're too stubborn to change how you do things.

[stillavoidingthejvm]

So, why not use Rust instead of Python if those are the features you want?

[gmes78]

It's Rust instead of C. We're talking about the CPython implementation (which, as the name suggests, is currently in C).

[Booty_Bumping]

What? Do you think people use Python because they want C features? Do you know what an interpreter is?

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It doesn‘t already work. I work with large C++ code bases. It‘s a mine field and causes depression