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I'm not a Rust guy, so take this with a grain of salt, but I was under the impression that Rust did a great job with C interoperability, which is all you need f

I'm not a Rust guy, so take this with a grain of salt, but I was under the impression that Rust did a great job with C interoperability, which is all you need for writing Python extensions. Some hasty googling brings up https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust, which appears to be exactly the thing you're asking for. In other words, it's not heavily advertised, but it appears to be entirely feasible to build Python extensions in Rust, and not spectacularly complicated either.

crdoconnor 9y ago
>Some hasty googling brings up https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust, which appears to be exactly the thing you're asking for. Yeah, I've tried it and it didn't work. It's certainly feasible it's just not very well developed.
steveklabnik 9y ago
The language does do great at the core of it, but there's a lot of stuff that makes it easier that's not the language's job. compare https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.2.0/book/rust-inside-other-languages.html#ruby https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.2.0/book/rust-inside-other-langu... to http://usehelix.com/ http://usehelix.com/ for example; the former is only using what the language knows, the latter is a nice library built on top. There's been some effort for nicer Python integration, but I haven't seen anything super super slick yet.