Hi,
I recently found ZettaScaleLabs/ros-z, a work-in-progress Rust reimplementation of ROS2 by some of the people behind Zenoh. This project is still young and does not seem to have been discussed here yet, however they have already developped a very interesting feature: ros-z provides python bindings with no dependency on ROS.
Concretely, this means it is possible to create ROS2 nodes from a pyproject.toml-based python project. AFAIK, this is not possible with the standard ROS tooling.
I think many people (including myself) avoid using ROS in python projects (and python in ROS project) because modern python tooling is not supported. Could ros-z be python’s big comeback in ROS? What do you think?