> Most of the useful parts of Python are written in C, C++, Fortran, Rust so when you try to deploy it some less frequently used platform it can burst into flames the worst kind of ways.
You can always write it in python.
This is the attitude which prevails those days. C is to blame because someone wrote Python in C.
What stops those people implementing the standard POSIX in rust or python ? Or even the X windows system or (for clairvoyants) the Wayland in Python or Rust ?
Or even better, they can make their own OS written in these languages (and even call it MULTICS).
Except you can't. Python has horrendous performance. You can write it in C and pretend it is Python.
> What stops those people implementing the standard POSIX in rust or python ? Or even the X windows system or (for clairvoyants) the Wayland in Python or Rust ?
> Or even better, they can make their own OS written in these languages (and even call it MULTICS).
This is exactly what is happening in the industry with really nice progress. We are entering the era when bad practices and subpar performance is not acceptable anymore. I am really hoping that Rust takes over devops and data at the very least. It started to enter the IoT space and some OS development (Linux supports it).
I am really hoping that this trend continuous and we start to see more an more device drivers in Rust and other safety and security critical systems.
As far as Python goes, I would be totally happy if Python would become the interpreted language that I could use on the top of Rust and I had to deal with only Rust problems.
You can always write it in python.
This is the attitude which prevails those days. C is to blame because someone wrote Python in C.
What stops those people implementing the standard POSIX in rust or python ? Or even the X windows system or (for clairvoyants) the Wayland in Python or Rust ?
Or even better, they can make their own OS written in these languages (and even call it MULTICS).