[thumbuddy]

It's a jack of all trades but a master of none. Nothing wrong with that until there is. Then you end up with two languages. This works fine for a while. Until you need 3... Next thing you know half your code was rewritten in other languages and cleaned up. Start realizing ya could have started your projects using different tools.

Not pooping on python it's... Fine. But I am not of the opinion that it's a great choice for all projects because technically "it can" do "anything".

[ssokolow]

That's actually one of my reasons for writing in Rust whenever possible.

The Rust ecosystem has a broad collection of tooling for using Rust to extend other languages, so there's minimal chance something I wrote in Rust will have to be rewritten to use it in a project in another language.

See https://www.hobofan.com/rust-interop/ and https://areweextendingyet.github.io/

In Python's case, there's also maturin, which aims to make building and publishing Rust-based wheels as easy as Cargo makes doing so for Rust-based crates.

...plus, in the worst case, Rust CLI tools start very quickly, so forking a Rust process for poor man's FFI is more viable, and Serde plus a JSON Schema generator like schemars will streamline microservice-based options.