inline-python VS swift

If you're willing to go the meta programming route, Rust is pretty flexible too. You can literally run python inline using macros.[1]

In my experience as someone that has been using Rust for a few years (and enjoys writing Rust) the biggest issue regarding adoption is that async Rust just isn't there yet when it comes to user experience.[2]

It works fine if you don't deviate from the simple stuff, but once you need to start writing your own Futures or custom locks it gets to a point that you REALLY need to understand Rust and its challenging type system.

[1] - https://github.com/m-ou-se/inline-python

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.

I had a very similar thought (which I removed from the final draft)

Yesterday without searching this prompt was able to speculate that my query about static vars on Swift actors was a sign of an underlying compiler bug.

Turns out, it WAS a compiler bug and fixed back in February. I have never found a compiler bug and I'm a Swift noob, but I was pretty impressed. (It's what led me to write this post) https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/78435

> which is 3 months old and has 0 stars (and so I assume 0 users and 0 years of battle testing)

ah my bad i meant to link to this one https://github.com/scrossuk/llvm-abi

which inspired the gsoc.

> is there really a _better_ option which exists today?

today the "best in class" approach is swift's which fully (well tries to) model cpp AST and do what i suggested (emitting code directly):

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/c09135b8f30c0cec8f5f...

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