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I can't absolutely say that this won't happen, but given Rust's focus on writing "correct" code, e.g. the borrow checker, etc, it's really unlikely given that o

by abenga 6y ago

I can't absolutely say that this won't happen, but given Rust's focus on writing "correct" code, e.g. the borrow checker, etc, it's really unlikely given that one of the largest areas where Python and R shine is in exploratory data analysis. I can't imagine trying to play around with unstructured exploration of a data set in Rust's (totally reasonable) syntactic verbosity, correctness straitjackets, and compilation time.

mr_toad 6y ago
Some of that complexity can be abstracted away with a good framework. I think it’s almost inevitable that a Pandas-like framework will eventually emerge for Rust (probably based on Arrow). It’s also quite possible that Rust could underpin a product like Spark, with a scripting language on top. The compilation time is a hurdle, but it’s not as if compiled languages are absent in numerical computing, for example Fortran.