Description
Writing code in Rust is fun, but writing it in Python is more fun... but for many use cases (i.e. training or constructing WFSTs for language modeling) we need the log semiring which is only accessible from Rust.
Evidently to support it elsewhere requires it to be added to rustfst-ffi which implies duplicating all the classes and functions everywhere. Since log and tropical semiring are nearly the same thing this seems a bit wasteful to me!
As an aside, I wonder whether the OpenFST approach of templating everything based on the weight type is really a good idea, given that it duplicates all the object code simply to have a different implementation of a handful of simple functions, but this is typical of the C++ mentality underlying OpenFST...