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Re: RustPython
#2Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
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#3I think it's really cool that Python has a healthy third-party interpreter community. PyPy, IronPython, Jython, and now RustPython expand Python's accessibility. It's very cool to see how many people are working on this, and I wonder what kind of problems with CPython this has exposed also.
Re: RustPython
#4I think it's really cool that Python has a healthy third-party interpreter community. PyPy, IronPython, Jython, and now RustPython expand Python's accessibility. It's very cool to see how many people are working on this, and I wonder what kind of problems with CPython this has exposed also.
I wonder if anyone actually uses those third-party interpreters for anything serious. I've never come across anyone that did.
Re: RustPython
#5How do extensions work with interpreters written other languages? Does the interpreter still expose a C API?
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#6Wonder how difficult it would be to write something akin to PyO3 but with python syntax for writing rust programs, just like a subset
Re: RustPython
#7Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
Why does it make you wince?
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#8Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
I was recently looking for some ways to make a rust project dynamically configurable. Yaml/toml/etc are too static or are terrible to describe logic in (yet we do it all the time for CI, infra etc, ugh).
WASM would be an option, but overengineered for my case. Ruby (through Artichoke), or Python (through RustPython); but they come with the downside of introducing Ruby or Python. I haven't decided yet, but would prefer Lua for it's simplicity. Or JavaScript (a subset) for how easy it can be limited in scope.
Are there any (example) rust programs out there that have embedded scripting, or runtime plugins or addons in a scripting language?
Re: RustPython
#9Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
Working on a significant C++ code base (shipped as deb, rpm and windows binaries) and wanting to allow some means to customize busyness logic we decided to integrate Python hooks, a couple of years ago. In hindsight, I'd call that decision a mixed blessing.
The code level integration (pybind11) was nice and easy, the issues came later. We found operational problems (multithreading), performance (in particular initialization) and worst: memory leaks and crashes on python VM teardown. Another problem was that python has it's own particular ideas about package management than generally don't rhyme with packages from the OS vendor.
I'm not sure what the angle is in this project, but I don't see a happy ending for projects that rely on both pip and cargo when it comes to maintenance and long-term support except for source-level integration. That is, unless there is some well designed and well thought out strategy to combine Rust and Python worlds that doesn't conflict with the RPM or apt view of doing things.
Re: RustPython
#10Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
I was recently looking for some ways to make a rust project dynamically configurable. Yaml/toml/etc are too static or are terrible to describe logic in (yet we do it all the time for CI, infra etc, ugh). WASM would be an option, but overengineered for my case. Ruby (through Artichoke), or Python (through RustPython); but they come with the downside of introducing Ruby or Python. I haven't decided yet, but would prefe…
why not lua?