[bb88]

Rust isn't so much "competing" as it is "complimentary" to python. This is very much how python was billed originally as a scripting language for "C" in it's early days.

The slow parts of your python program can be rewritten in rust or C, your choice. So refreshing.

[ethbr1]

To me, this was one of the greatest strengths of early Python: humility.

It didn't try to be everything (high performing, compile-time static typing) to everyone (novice, intermediate, expert, academic).

It instead made it easy to solve critical needs (e.g. highest performance hot code) by interoperating with an existing solution that did them well.