Rust will never break into mainstream Data Engineering.

Rust is the new sliced bread, but it's future in DE is questionable.

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It's true, Rust is the future, you can see it written in the sky, blowing by in the clouds, in the leaves blowing in the trees. Rust snuck in quietly while Golang, Scala, and Java were all playing games and frolicking in the fields as if there would never be a reckoning. Python of course was just spending the nights at the club downtown.

But, like the first snow flurries darkening the winter sky, the summer days can't last, and it was inevitable that Rust came to be crowned.

Even so, Rust will never be accepted into mainstream Data Engineering for day-to-day use. I hope you stick around long enough for me to explain myself. Here's what we will cover today.

• Why is Rust so popular?

• Rust in the Data Engineering landscape today.

• Why Rust won't be the Data Engineering language of choice.

• Closing thoughts.

Oh, Rust, you are a special one, and much kinder overload than that dirty old Scala, that is for sure.