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What do people love about Rust?
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Python is actually super known for its batteries included approach, it has modules for everything. Simply do pip install anything. But best practice is to use a python virtual environment and install packages into that one. Cargo does this by itself in each project and doesnt install modules globally.
But python code is so much easier to write. Its basically almost English and the syntax is easy. Rust... Not so much. Its quite ugly.
Its a systems programming language. Designed to be fast to execute. Its one of the slowest to write code in. But sure, with Ai, you can just ask for a rust script and it will run.
Not everything. PyYAML, Pydantic and Typer are things I commonly want in scripts that aren't in the standard library.
It's more than "best practice". It's mandatory on many recent Linux distros. And yeah setting up a venv and installing dependencies is not something you want to have to do for each script you run.
It depends what your goal is. If you want robust code that works reliably then I would say Rust has the edge still. Yes it will take longer to write but you'll spend way less time debugging it and writing tests.