Re:Writing Python inside Rust
by zerkten on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:04AM
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There was a recent ATP.fm podcast with Chris Lattner of Swift fame. He talked about the topic of embedding Python code in Swift for TensorFlow and it overlaps with your suggestion.
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Re:Writing Python inside Rust
by NobodyNada on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:12AM
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Swift for Tensorflow has implemented Python interoperability, rather than embedded Python code as in this article. A Swift program can import a Python module and interact with Python objects and functions as if they were native Swift objects (minus strong typing, of course). See https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI...
Rust has had Python interop through the Python C API since around 2015 [1]. It's pretty low hanging fruit for any language that supports the C FFI. Rust-cpython has had simple macros for interop for ages [2] and there's even a library that uses serde macros to encode/decode pickled object [3].
This article is just a fun hack using Rust macros.
[1] https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython
[2] http://dgrunwald.github.io/rust-cpython/doc/cpython/macro.py...