Rust and PyO3 Support

[mplemay]

Hi all,

I start off by saying, thank you for building and maintaining this amazing tool.

Are there any plans to add rust as a supported language? If so, would generating python bindings using PyO3 be a supported workflow?

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to respond.

-- Matt

[Eric-Arellano]

Hello, welcome! Rust is certainly a language we'd love to support - we love Rust and are working on a blog post about how we ourselves use PyO3 to make Pants possible :) We haven't yet begun that work of scoping out Pants & Rust support, although we hope that our recent progress on Go, Java, and Scala will make it easier to accomplish.

Are you using PyO3 currently?

Related: we haven't tried Maturin yet, but it might be an interesting angle for a PyO3 integration: https://github.com/PyO3/maturin.

[adriangb]

I highly recommend Maturín. It's let me write a cookie cutter (change 1LOC) GitHub workflow to build abi3 wheels for like 10 targets.