lazerpay-rust-sdk VS Panther

So far, I’ve been reading the book “Zero to Production”, and I’ve had lots of fun working on the projects in it. I’ve also collaborated with other Rust developers on projects like Lazer Pay’s Rust SDK. I worked with Enochwho I met on the Rust Nigeria group chat. In fact, if the Rust Nigeria community hadn’t been created, I probably would have created it myself. A personal favourite of mine is the Thanos Project - a program that randomly deletes exactly half the number of files in a folder and I still have a couple of features I intend to add soon. That project taught me how to work with Rust’s documentation and I developed the notion, one I still hold, that all documentation should be like Rust’s. Another thing about Rust that makes me an unrepentant champion is the Rust philosophy, the philosophy that went into its design. The philosophy of “no breaking changes”, the compiler design, Just genius. I am not saying somewhere along the line we could not find something wrong, but, right now, it’s the closest thing to perfection in my opinion.

I recently started learning rust and decided to make a python library with PyO3 and NDArray as a first project. With the name Panther, the library was supposed to be an implementation of stock technical indicators (EMA, SMA, RSI, Ect). I added a few functions, and decided to do some speed tests with the pandas way of calculating these indicators. I was shocked to see that my code was about 9x faster on average than pandas calculations. I know this is expected when using a low level language like rust in python, but I'm amazed none the less. Especially as someone new to rust, the fact I could get these "advertised" results with rust in python without having to do crazy optimizations is crazy to me. Plus, something about writing low-level code and getting these results in python is very satisfying. The best part though? The process to get these results wasn't even hard! The cargo packages I used had great documentation and the compiler?! Actually helpful! With reference material on errors too! Officially done geeking out about Rust haha but love this language and love this community. Hoping to get more involved with OS stuff. What project is everyone working on? Anything cool?