Many R/Python libraries for statistical programming use C/C++/Fortran under the hood, for the stuff that needs to be fast. I'd like to contribute to many of th

Many R/Python libraries for statistical programming use C/C++/Fortran under the hood, for the stuff that needs to be fast. I'd like to contribute to many of these packages, but have little interest in learning the languages. Rust could provide a good replacement (and one which is more productive for people used to higher-level languages). There hasn't been much uptake so far, but I'm hopeful.