That spread in performance is not realistic though. Of course rust is that much faster, I have no doubt that you could 100x the performance of equivalent python, the problem is that it's an imaginary scenario. Nobody is writing a tight loop in python, you're delegating to pandas/polars, SQL, external calls or what have you. Nobody cares that the code that initializes a call to a 10-minute training run of Xgboost takes 0.001 seconds instead of 0.1 seconds. Nobody cares if you fearlessly optimize the 7 lines of code to connect to a database, whose runtime is dwarfed by a SQL query over the wire.
I don't want to come off as negative towards rust, I do think it's a great language, I'm just really perplexed when people try to use it in contexts that are far removed from its sweet spot.