HI! Haven't used pants much since ~2016 and have what I hope are easy questions on where things currently stand: • If I want to run a python Language Server, I can maybe glue something together with

pants export

, but there isn't any magic 'out of the box'. Is that right? (I saw https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/13260) • Pants itself is bootstrapped as a python app with a rust core (python code calling rust), but there isn't a blessed/official/supported way to have python targets depending on rust targets today?

RE: Python Language Server - correct. Tom is working hard on BSP support as we speak but it's not ready yet. RE: Python -> Rust - correct. We don't dogfood Pants fully yet to build Pants, the Rust bit is behind a bootstrap script. The best you can do today is use a

python_distribution

target that wraps up your Rust build if that ~works (If you use something like https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust).

• That is correct. I'm hopeful by end of year we'll see some Python LSP support by Pants 🤞 • It's actually Python -> Rust (multiple threads) -> Python 🎉 . But you're correct Pants itself doesn't support Rust as a language. Of course, contributions are welcome! The community is happy to guide/support

FWIW, on the Python -> Rust bit via

python_distribution

(https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-distributions), that's how some folks get by today for Python -> Cython, although there is work towards a 1st class Cython support plugin.

Thanks for the answers and context!