[gbrown]

Not everyone operates at that scale, and not every data science workload is DNN based

I agree with your general point, however, but the role I'd hope for with Rust is not optimizing the top level, but replacing the mountains of C++ with something safer and equally performant.

[MiroF]

But the title of this post is Python vs Rust, not C++ vs Rust. Maybe BLAS could be made safer but i don't think that's what's happening here