From its timid introduction to the Mercurial Version Control System back in 2017 to its more than 50k lines of code today, Rust has enabled a wide range of improvements, some of which we wager would have been impossible if not for Rust. This talk shows how we reach far beyond the obvious point of "Rust runs faster than Python". It discusses aspects like maintainability, dependency management, API re-designs, opportunities for more advanced algorithms, on disk data-structures, safe parallelism, e

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