A little less than a year ago I worked on a bioinformatics project in rust, and I think it came out very well. My perception was that bio is a field where most

A little less than a year ago I worked on a bioinformatics project in rust, and I think it came out very well. My perception was that bio is a field where most practitioners rely on high speed code written by someone else that can be called from their perl or python code. I see something very empowering with rust, where people can write high performance analysis without having to shoehorn their workload into an existing toolkit or framework. That said, while I'm really excited to see rust go more places, astrophysics seems like one of very few fields where practitioners learn a high performance language as a matter of course, and so rust may have a less empowering effect for them. I would wager that after paying the upfront cost to learn it, students and researchers may see improved iteration time from fewer bugs. But it seems like rust may have an incremental improvement to offer which is not as powerful as the transformative nature of its potential in other computationally intensive fields.