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 # bean-rs
 
+**Project paused until [this PR in PyO3](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4135) (or something similar) gets merged.**
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 Basic [beancount](https://github.com/beancount/beancount) clone (one day...) in Rust!
 
 Still very very alpha and doesn't do most things that are necessary to be at all useful.