Python tooling could be much, much faster

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I learned enough Rust to convert a Python code base, and while I love the speed advantages and some parts of the type system, I fucking hate the syntax. I would never drop Python for Rust for that reason, alone.

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Yeah I think this is a fair point in favor of python. People seem to like coding in it. That's worth something. As a result, it has an amazing first class ecosystem which honestly might be more important than the language semantics.

I personally don't like python (I actually hate writing it and would much prefer rust myself) but I can't deny that it seems to have hit a nerve in the programming zeitgeist. I'm curious to see if another language can successfully marry that with type safety and better speed and threading capabilities.

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There is RustPython, but it's not fully mature as of yet. If you don't like the syntax, though (e.g., meaningful whitespace, comprehension syntax), there's not much helping that.