Spark Connect - What is this madness?

Using Rust to write Spark? Lord save us.

I wasn’t sure if my poor old eyes were deceiving me or not, but yet, there it was. After years and decades of doing data work, my heart has become cold and my fingers feel wizened and dry as I leaf through the endless supply of digital new snake oils being hawked on the street corners.

But I could not deny this miracle elixir, Spark Connect, like a fly t…