CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues

The maintainers of CPython have backed off from making Rust a required dependency for the Python reference implementation, focusing on the less intrusive task of building an optional Rust API for internal Python development. The move “sidesteps a lot of the concerns that people brought up,” Rust Programming Manager Tomáš Šedovič explained at RustConf, held in Montréal last week. Šedovič and others from Rust have been working with the CPython core developers to smooth the integration between the two environments. CPython’s revised approach eschews a more aggressive push to use Rust in Python, an approach that roiled the Linux kernel community’s adoption of Rust last year. The tasty dish is still rejected by the unwilling...

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