We just massively overdelivered on a project thanks to Rust (and Python bindings)

• Python-Rust-benchmark

  2 1 3.6 Python

  Discontinued Python vs Rust benchmark using a toy visual problem (linear algebra).

got the same reaction for this project: https://github.com/Ismail-Maj/python-rust-benchmark Around 3000x faster too :)

• PyO3

  147 11,044 9.8 Rust

  Rust bindings for the Python interpreter

  

I haven't done extensive comparisons, but my general experience is that if you are just working on something that can translate to looping over array elements, you can get excellent performance with cython or numba. It is likely on-par with rust performance if you can avoid creating a bunch of temporary/intermediate numpy arrays. I typically only reach for rust as a method for writing a python extension (e.g. using pyo3) if the problem involves more complicated data structures or dealing with json, xml or other file types and possibly instances where multi-threading is important. Even in the case of multi-threading, if there is a natural way to break up an array processing problem you can use cython or numba, release the GIL and then use the `concurrent.futures` module to distribute work. Also it's currently the case that pyo3 can have some performance overhead that you don't see with cython, for example https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/661

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• maturin

  37 3,261 9.4 Rust

  Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages

  

Thank you for the idea, opened a tracking issue in maturin: https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/issues/657

• Warframe-OCR

  3 1 0.0 HTML

  A relic inventory recognition system for Warframe, based on experimental Rust bindings to Tesseract OCR. Supports detection in real-time. Very much WIP.

I don't like maturin workflow either because it installs directly to the python environment. This is not very useful during development. I wrote a module import file which loads the python module from the shared library. You could easily invoke cargo before importing the module (remember to delete the previous shared library file) to have a fully automated development processes.

• Rustlings

  289 49,342 9.5 Rust

  :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

  

This is also considered a good resource for exercises but I didn't try it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings

• napi-rs

  35 5,488 9.6 Rust

  A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API

  

I had the same experience but with Node.js and https://napi.rs

• TablaM

  151 183 0.0 Rust

  The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

  

P.D: And my current dream is making a spiritual successor of FoxPro, in Rust!

• SaaSHub

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• faster_fishers

  1 5 0.0 Rust

  Fast implementation of Fisher's exact test in Rust for Python.

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