> There is no way porting to Python 3 can be harder than porting to Rust. Rust is statically typed and not garbage collected. Everyone would have to think if th

> There is no way porting to Python 3 can be harder than porting to Rust. Rust is statically typed and not garbage collected. Everyone would have to think if they need string or array of bytes anyway, but also, who owns them. The author addresses this. The difference is that when porting to Rust you'd likely get a faster and more correct program in the end. (Huge caveat of big rewrites, of course). Whereas with Python 3 they feel like they did all the porting work and got nothing valuable in return.