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<p>From its timid introduction to the <a href="https://mercurial-scm.org">Mercurial Version Control System</a> 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.</p> <p>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, etc.</p> <p>We present our rare perspective of working on a 20 year-old codebase with half-a-million lines of Python code, in a software niche with quite extreme goals. Mercurial aims to provide instant-feeling commands with short lived processes for a local database of tens of millions of revisions for millions of files with fully distributed replication.</p>