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Why is it tragic? It's more or less idiomatic in Python to put the hot or performance-sensitive paths of a package in native code; Rust has arguably made that into a much safer practice.

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pjmlp 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Because it forces mastering two languages, or depending on third party developers for anything that matters beyond basic OS scripting tasks.

It became idiomatic as there was no other alternative.

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woodruffw 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You don’t have to master Rust to use this, the same way you don’t have to master C to use all of the critical extensions written in it.

(Besides, no language has this regardless of native extensions: a huge part of Python’s success comes from the fact that there isn’t a perfect graph of competencies in the community, and instead that community members provide high quality abstractions over their respective competencies.)

	▲	pjmlp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Assuming someone else fixes the issues that might come up. One of the pain points from Python is exactly native libraries and getting them compiled.