Rust for Python Developers (english)
summary
Compares Python and Rust as choices for new projects, focusing on Rust’s advantages in performance and security and its drawbacks. Shows side-by-side code examples to illustrate how much more difficult common tasks can be in Rust, based on the presenter’s experience rewriting the Jedi autocompletion library from Python to Rust to improve performance.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and journey
- 5:05Why consider Rust
- 7:51Rust in the programming world
- 10:16Rust language basics
- 13:21Data structures and enums
- 16:00Pattern matching in Rust
- 19:46Harder concepts: Lifetimes
- 24:52Advanced and risky features
- 30:14Case study: Rewriting Jedi
- 34:30Performance and web development
- 37:26Project estimation and tradeoffs
- 38:26Summary of Rust vs Python
- 43:32Concluding thoughts
- 45:33Q&A session
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