Comment by zzzeek

> Maybe the strongest advantage of rust, on top of very clean and fast default behaviors, is that it attracts people that care about speed, safety and correctness. And those devs are more likely to spend time implementing fast software.

people who have this opinion should use Rust, not Python, at all. if Python code does not have sufficient speed, safety, and correctness for someone, it should not be used. Python's tools should be written in Python.

> The killer feature is, being a stand alone executable, it bypasses all python bootstrapping problems.

I can't speak for windows or macs but on Linux, system pythons are standard, and there is no "bootstrapping problem" using well known utilities that happen to be written in Python.