Oxidizing sourmash: Python and FFII think the first time I heard about Rust was because Frank Mcsherry chose it to write a timely dataflow implementation. Since then it started showing more and more in my news sources, leading to Armin Ronacher publishing a post in the Sentry blog last November about writing Python extensions in Rust. Last December I decided to give it a run: I spent some time porting the C++ bits of sourmash to R
