Writing Pythonic Rust

Writing Pythonic Rust 2021-05-04 Over the past several weeks I have been attempting to reimplement the API of an existing python library as a wrapper for an equivalent library in Rust. tl;dr: this ended up being much harder than I expected it to be, partly because of important differences in the behaviour of the two languages, and partly because of the (self-imposed) obligation to match an existing (idiomatic) python API. Motivation Python is the traditional language of choice for font tools. Popular font editors generally support extensions written in python, and type designers and foundries frequently have extensive collections of scripts and tools