Automatically set up Rust integration

[orowith2os]

I've been looking into using hatch while learning to use Python, as it seems to be the closest thing it has to Cargo.

Coming from a Rust background, it's probably a no-brainer that I'll want to use Rust at some point to improve the performance of my software, utilize APIs available in Rust, or other potential use cases for Rust in a Python project.

I'd like to use this issue to see if some easy-to-use Rust integration with Hatch would be possible, or if it's possible as a plugin. Ideally it would be added to Hatch itself, so it's easy to get going.

[thehappycheese]

I'd love to see hatch and the existing rust-python package build tool maturin get together. Maybe hatch's plugin system could host maturin's build scripts? I get the impression that maturin does a lot of complicated stuff under the hood. It wouldn't make sense to start a new implementation from scratch in hatch I think?

[orowith2os]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Just some basic stuff so that it's all handled for you, and you can get right to writing Rust.

[mohammadzainabbas]

Maybe hatch's plugin system could host maturin's build scripts?

Is there any update/progress regarding this ?

[ofek]

https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/issues/1419