Rust places such a high emphasis on backwards-compatibility that you can still run code in Rust 1.0 today. Likewise, if you write Rust code today, you should still be able to run it in twenty years.

Currently in alpha, Pyrefly is a new open-source Python type checker developed by Meta in Rust for maximum performance. Inspired by tools like Pyre, Pyright, and MyPy, Pyrefly is intended to replace t ...

Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type checking, are written in Rust. This isn’t a swipe at Python; every language has its place.

A Python script that takes five minutes to write and one second to execute is a better choice for the developer than a Rust program that takes half an hour to write and a hundredth of a second to run.

News VS Code's Copilot 'AI Pair Programmer' Improves Chat UI, Explains Rust Code By David Ramel 12/11/2023 In Visual Studio Code 1.85, the dev team has improved the GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" ...