Build your Python Extensions with Rust!

Speaker: Paul Ganssle
When your Python needs to be fast, one powerful tool is the ability to write
compiled extension modules. Normally this is done using the C API, but that
requires managing reference counts and memory allocation and is nearly
impossible to do correctly for non-trivial programs. In this talk, we'll
look at how you can write extension modules in Rust - a memory-safe systems
programming language that is increasingly popular as a replacement for C and
C++, and the most loved language in the Stack Overflow developer survey 4
years running (insights.stack...
most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages).
This talk will focus on `pyo3` and `milksnake`, two popular libraries that
provide very different approaches for writing Rust extensions; it will cover
a basic introduction to the libraries, and compare their relative strengths
and weaknesses. These will also be compared to C and Cython extension
modules from a performance, safety and maintainability perspective.