Yeah, there is actually a pretty big shift towards Rust in the comp bio / bioinformatics community.

Nature even wrote a feature article about it a couple years ago:

Why scientists are turning to Rust

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2

They mention the Rust-Bio [1] project by well known Snakemake author Johannes Köster & co, and there are some other widely used libraries like needletail [2] and noodles [3].

A cool smaller tool developed by performance wiz Ragnar Groot Koerkamp which was just published is Sassy [4] [5]. He has also been involved in developing some high performance SIMD based stuff (minimizers) [6].

[1] https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-bio

[2] https://github.com/onecodex/needletail

[3] https://github.com/zaeleus/noodles

[4] https://github.com/RagnarGrootKoerkamp/sassy

[5] https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/42/5/btag244...

[6] https://github.com/rust-seq/simd-minimizers