The September BangPypers meetup was an amazing event, hosted at Rippling, where we collaborated with Rust India community and had insightful sessions covering Python and Rust, core concepts like kernals and unicode texts were explored.

Ishaan Arora started the proceedings with their talk on Having fun with text in Python or 🐍❤🔠. It deep dived into how text of different languages and emoji are rendered on screen and all the details it covers underneath them.

Then Kushal Mittal presented PyArrow inside an AI Agent: When a dataframe becomes an API. He bought an interesting prespective of using dataframe mapping to call AI tools and why JSON is not optimal for all our use cases.

Nihal Pasham took then presenting cuda-oxide: write CUDA (SIMT) kernels in pure Rust. He explained how to write a CUDA (SIMT) kernels and also showed a live demo. Explained how magic of Rust is powering the new AI infrastructure.

We also had an engaging lightning talks:

Bhavya Bhatt delivered a lightning talk on IDE friendly compiler construction - Jarvil

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Community Announcements

SerpApi India Hackathon 2026 — Build with Live Search Data

Our gold sponsor SerpApi has announced the SerpApi India Hackathon 2026, running from September 1 to October 5, 2026!

Build something useful with live search data—create AI agents, open-source integrations, and applications powered by SerpApi.

Prizes (Worth ₹3 Lakh+)

• First Prize: ₹1,00,000 cash + 15,000 SerpApi credits
• BangPypers Special Prize: Best submission from the BangPypers community wins ₹10,000 cash + 5,000 SerpApi credits!

Details & Timeline

• Dates: September 1 – October 5, 2026
• Submission Deadline: October 5, 2026, 11:59 PM IST
• Format: Online (open to India residents aged 18+)
• Teams: Participate solo or in a team of up to 5 members
• How to Participate: Visit serpapi.com/indiahackathon to register and review the full rules, eligibility, and prize details.

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A big thank you to all our speakers — Ishaan, Kushal, Nihal and Bhavya — as well as to our wonderful attendees, our venue partner Rippling, and the Rust India community for making this meetup a success. Stay tuned for more events and knowledge sharing in the months to come!

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