inline-python VS roxmltree

This may be cursed but you could just use https://github.com/fusion-engineering/inline-python to use the Python Levensthein library in Rust directly. Just make sure to invoke the Rust binary under a venv with the library

I know the OP asked about Node/PHP but for Python, there is https://github.com/fusion-engineering/inline-python which can give you both Rust and the all-the-libraries experience.

Inspired by past work: LINQ, inline-python, crepe, DataScript, Riffle.

And if that doesn't work, there's always inline-python.

This is exactly what I needed when implementing xml-mut :D I have used roxmltree instead and manipulated text directly. will try to rewrite it using Xot.

In regards to the benchmarks, It makes sense to measure serializing/deserializing for parser crates. but since we are talking about dom implementations, metrics like traversal/iteration speed or insert/modification performance would be useful. a good example is roxmltree crate (readonly xml dom) which benches traversal/iteration performance and shows that by only focusing on readonly usecases, it gains substantial performance gains.

For xml parsing, I find https://github.com/RazrFalcon/roxmltree as a really good crate. It’s fast, light, and well documented/maintained. I have so much respect for the maintainer’s approach to merging PRs and the way they consider what’s important for the crate

I understand. But I've also wrote enough parsers and performance sensitive code in Rust (ttf-parser, tiny-skia, roxmltree). And in my experience, unsafe is not needed in 99% of the cases. Even something as performance sensitive as tiny-skia is unsafe-free (with some nuances).