[cmyr]

I've been using rust to as a more performance-oriented tool alongside python. It _is_ a different tool: there are certain tasks (for an irl example: taking a Unicode data file, parsing its contents, transforming it in some way, and writing it to disk) where python works very well and Rust feels like overkill.

That said, Rust is very elegant for the work it is doing. Rust iterators and iterator adapters are a powerful and clean way of manipulating collections, and the `match` syntax is an elegant way of handling errors and Option types.

Rust isn't a scripting language in terms of its strengths, but it isn't far away in terms of how pleasant it is to read and write. I would definitely suggest taking a look at it next time you run into performance constraints in python: it's easy to create python-native modules & interfaces with tools like rust-cpython (https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython).