Much of the Python ecosystem for statistics and machine learning is written in C, via modules that could be replaced or rewritten incrementally. It isn’t difficult to expose Rust code to Python.

Rust places such a high emphasis on backwards-compatibility that you can still run code in Rust 1.0 today. Likewise, if you write Rust code today, you should still be able to run it in twenty years.

GitHub’s annual "State of the Octoverse" report has found that systems programming languages Python and Rust are rising. In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on ...