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abandoning Python for Rust in AI would cripple the field, not rescue it the disease is the cargo cult addiction (which Rust is full of) to micro libraries, not the language that carries 90% of all peer reviewed papers, datasets, and models published in the last decade every major breakthrough, from AlphaFold to Stable Diffusion, ships with a Python reference implementation because that is the language researchers can read, reproduce, and extend, remove Python and you erase the accumulated, executable knowledge of an entire discipline overnight, enforcing Rust would sabotage the field more than anything on the topic of uv, it will do more harm than good by enabling and empowering cargo cults on a systemic level the solution has always been education, teaching juniors to value simplicity, portability and maintainability |