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PyO3 with David Hewitt

Rustacean Station

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The Importance of Rust in Cryptography

C is something that's very, very portable. And so we can end up putting the Python interpreter on all sorts of different machines. But not every target that you can compile to with C, can you compile to with Rust? So if you make the decision of choosing Rust as your implementation language for a Python extension instead of C, then you are going to be limiting some people from being able to use your package. There might be reasons why you don't want to do that. Sometimes that's a trade off you got to make.

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