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I think it would be an exceedingly interesting project to define a Pythonic syntax for Rust, then implement a Cfront-like frontend to translate Pythonic-Rust to brace-and-semicolon Rust before compiling it. (The Rust language spec is gradually reaching a point where there would presumably not be large, disruptive changes.)

You could make it available to the Rust community (and even the broader Rust-interested community on HN and Reddit) and see if it takes off.

If the Python-Rust were to become more popular than brace-and-semicolon Rust, the creators may well be persuaded to adopt it. Or at the very least, you'd have a thriving like-minded Python-Rust community. :)




There already is `rustc --pretty`, but it has some bugs and such. I'm sure you could modify it for that purpose.




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