Before I convinced co-workers that we could use Rust in production (where we'd normally have used Python), I wrote a lot of this kind of script (where, I'd agre

Before I convinced co-workers that we could use Rust in production (where we'd normally have used Python), I wrote a lot of this kind of script (where, I'd agree, a higher-level language like Python is a better choice) in Rust and Python so that they'd be able to have some idea of what the differences were and how Rust works. It seems like a great exercise for the very conservative or intimidated programmer to ease into more low-level programming.