It is in a very initial POC stage and distributed mode is pretty basic, but it is moving faster than I expected. Python integration is definitely one of the primary objectives as I suspect that no one is going to learn Rust for this, although I feel that it is not that hard. In fact, it can have a better integration story with python than Spark as Rust has good C interop. Regarding performance, yeah it is pretty good from what I have seen for CPU intensive tasks and once blockmanager is implemented with compression and other optimizations like Spark, shuffle tasks also will improve. There are a lot of unnecessary allocations here than I would prefer just to keep it in safe Rust as much as possible and there is still plenty of optimizations possible here. I am doing this in my free time only. I feel that it is too early to compare witn Spark given how many features Spark has. Maybe in a couple of months after it matures a bit and if there is enough traction for this, then we can look for sponsors.
