New to Rust, converting a project from Python

Hi All, I'm new to Rust, coming from a systems engineering and Python background, with the idea of learning Rust for AI tooling and safe agent runtimes. To help get more fluent, I want to start converting some of my Python projects to Rust. I figure this would be a good, ambitious, and robust starting point: I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on how to proceed, which libraries to use, etc. In this project I'm using the python transformers library to pull in the DistilBERT ...