Pybites Podcast #169 - Bridging Python and Rust: An Interview with PyO3 Maintainer David Hewitt

Pybites Podcast

In this episode Bob chats with David Hewitt, passionate Python and Rust programmer, core maintainer of PyO3, and part of the Pydantic team.
PyO3 lets you write a native Python module in Rust, or to embed Python in a Rust binary. David shares his journey of getting involved and how this tool set helps Python programmers integrate with Rust more easily.
We talk about how PyO3 helped the Pydantic v2 Rust integration, how to design for a great developer experience, the mindset of dealing with complex issues, PyPI getting more packages with Rust, how to best learn Rust and more.
Enjoy and let us know when you give PyO3 (and maturin) a try ...
Reach out to David:
https://github.com/davidhewitt
(additional social media links there)
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Meet David Hewitt (00:02:05)

3. Bridging Python and Rust: David's journey (00:03:40)

4. Getting started with PyO3 (00:05:56)

5. PyO3's role in Pydantic v2 and other projects (00:09:38)

6. PyO3 and maturin's nice developer experience / ergonomics (00:15:40)

7. Mindset for dealing with complex open source solutions (00:19:40)

8. More Rust on PyPI (00:25:20)

9. Should Python developers learn Rust? (00:27:00)

10. PDM ad segment (00:31:01)

11. Rust learning resources (00:31:28)

12. Streaming PyO3 work on YouTube (00:34:40)

13. Wrap and outro music (00:41:10)