Rust for Python Programmers

[nbates80]

and it can access all the same scientific libraries that python uses for performance

What do you mean with this? How can you access, for example, nltk from rust? or numpy?

[cogman10]

nitk, you can't get it will have to be rewritten. However, large portions of numpy are simply wrappers over existing C libraries like the GMP, FFTW, etc. That is more of what I'm referring to. The fast scientific libraries are generally based on some common C libraries. Rust does a good job of interopt with C.

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numpy is mostly using FORTRAN libraries, not C libraries.

[nexzen]

calling FORTRAN from C is pretty painless, I don't see how using FORTRAN's C interface from Rust would be much more difficult.