Thanks for the explanation! One thing to consider is that CPython isn't slow because of the language it's written in, but because of optimizations it isn't doi

Thanks for the explanation! One thing to consider is that CPython isn't slow because of the language it's written in, but because of optimizations it isn't doing (namely JIT, I think). Rust can't do the same things any faster than C can, and an early implementation of Python in Rust isn't likely to be much faster than an early implementation in C. Rust has the potential to make certain classes of optimization easier, eventually.