Pybites Podcast
In this episode Bob chats with David Hewitt, passionate Python and Rust programmer, core maintainer of PyO3, and part of the Pydantic team.
PyO3 lets you write a native Python module in Rust, or to embed Python in a Rust binary. David shares his journey of getting involved and how this tool set helps Python programmers integrate with Rust more easily.
We talk about how PyO3 helped the Pydantic v2 Rust integration, how to design for a great developer experience, the mindset of dealing with complex issues, PyPI getting more packages with Rust, how to best learn Rust and more.
Enjoy and let us know when you give PyO3 (and maturin) a try ...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:05 Meet David Hewitt
03:40 Bridging Python and Rust: David's journey
05:56 Getting started with PyO3
09:38 PyO3's role in Pydantic v2 and other projects
15:40 PyO3 and maturin's nice developer experience / ergonomics
19:40 Mindset for dealing with complex open source solutions
25:20 More Rust on PyPI
27:00 Should Python developers learn Rust?
31:01 PDM ad segment
31:28 Rust learning resources
34:40 Streaming PyO3 work on YouTube
41:10 Wrap and outro music
Reach out to David:
https://github.com/davidhewitt
(additional social media links there)
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