I've been working on a Rust-native client that has no dependency on libindi, specifically because I want something portable; in theory it would be quite easy to provide a Python extension with the Rust backend.

Having said that, a pure Python client would be much easier to write (I'm struggling with INDI because of the poor state of XML parsers in Rust) and in theory to maintain given the wider Python userbase. For client authoring it'd certainly be easier to work with. I'm writing this purely to drive an all-sky camera and that'll be shipping images off to a neural net/CV stuff for image segmentation, and Python's a native of that sort of thing.

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