rust-csv

> Rust is one of those languages where I need to work to make the compiler happy, but once I manage that, the code generally works on the first try. I can confirm this. I have a CSV parser[1] that is maybe twice as fast as Python's CSV parser (which is written in C)+. There's nothing magical going on: with Rust, I can expose a safe iterator over fields in a record without allocating. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv The docs explain the different access patterns (start with convenience and move toward performance): http://burntsushi.net/rustdoc/csv/#iteratoring-over-records + - Still working on gathering evidence...

I've also written a fair bit of Go and have recently taken a full dive into Rust [1, 2] and it's been a ton of fun so far. I really love both languages. Their features and goals have a pretty small intersection, but I enjoy both a lot. If you want to take a dive and are willing to put up with a little instability, now wouldn't be a bad time. The 0.10 release appears to be on the horizon and they just released binary installers, which should make tracking tip much easier: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00922... [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv