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I did a talk at RustConf about Rust for machine learning.

The short story is that rust is awesome for handling data - especially unclean data. But Python, or really anything with a REPL, is still ideal for the exploratory phase using ipython notebook and whatnot.

Rust would be suitable for building machine learning algorithms but it's still immature in that area. For now you could perform the data processing in rust and the ML in Python.