I understand comparing Rust to C++ and Go, maybe even Java but Python? Python is a totally different niche and including it in this comparision kinda makes me question the whole articles intention and assessment.
> Rust vs Python: advantages
> Rust is well-designed. Rust allows for putting statements in a lambda and everything is an expression, so it’s easier to compose particular parts of the language. Python lacks it. Rust doesn’t have classes so the object orientation is not as evolved as it is in Python. Python also comes across with the necessity of writing more tests, production outages, or runtime crashes. Rust makes it less expensive to identify and fix possible bugs.
Those advantages come at a cost, specifically in terseness and readability, which are both _strengths_ of Python. As a result, they're very different tools, and comparing them shows that the author doesn't grasp their relative strengths and how those apply to their typical use cases.
And in tasks like these, I usually don’t even miss having a garbage collector, and rarely need lifetime annotations.
Just in case: I didn't want to imply there are no use cases which overlap, only that in general the use cases for both languages are very different.
I find cargo more productive than Python’s package management, where I have to manually manage environments and requirements.txt files.
Things I like less: less “batteries included”, so I spend more time evaluating libraries and wondering if a github project hasn’t been touched since 2019 because it just works, or because the maintainer got bored. The learning curve is steep at times, and involved being blocked on pleasing the compiler.