Greetings all! Another one that seemed worthwhile to bring to the list. I've just filed CASSPYTHON-8 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSPYTHON-8> to explore the idea of replacing our current C and cython code with equivalent Rust implementations. This technique is becoming more common in the Python world but there are concrete benefits for us on the Python driver team. There's some discussion about these benefits on CASSPYTHON-8.
Our upcoming release (likely 3.30.0) will be intended to get an ASF-branded Python driver out into the wild so I'm not planning on tackling any work in this area then. The plan would be to start with this effort for 3.31.0. We'll start with something small, just to try out the mechanism for integrating Rust code into a Python project, and see where that takes us. Thanks! - Bret -
