Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust

I’m glad you found it enjoyable! Hopefully it was helpful as well :-)

I’m the author of the package in question, so I can try to answer that.

The first (and lazy) answer is that it was an educational exercise: I wanted to try my hand at writing in Python package in Rust, and this particular need afforded itself of me.

The second answer is that the package in question contains a (basic) parser, and it’s my opinion that Rust is particularly well suited to this domain: you should ideally only write a /proc/…/maps parser exactly once, with strong modeling of all valid and invalid states. Rust gives us that strong modeling for free (to say nothing of performance and memory safety), and it binds easily to other languages.

I haven’t meaningfully exercised my Ruby skills in a while, but you can probably fake a wheel-style gem by having extconf or something similar fetch an appropriate build from a server instead of performing the build locally. That would be an awful hack, which is why it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that people are doing it :-)