Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
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Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#2Discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270762
It's a weird article. It seems more like a Rust sales pitch than anything.
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#4OP or mods should probably add "(2020)" to the end of the title.
Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#5First thing I did was to ctrl+f "10x genomics", because apart from them not too many people are using Rust for scientific computing.
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#6Field specific, to be sure, but I know literally zero scientists turning to Rust.
Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#7Are they? I worked with bioinformaticians and now physicists and rust has never come up.
> Köster, now at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was looking for a language that offered the “expressiveness” of Python but the speed of languages such as C and C++. In other words, “a high-performance language that is still, let’s say, ergonomic to use”, he explains. What he found was Rust.
He must not have looked very far. There are much better options if you're looking for the expressiveness of Python. Personally I'm very fond of Nim.
Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#8Why 5 scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#9Are they? I worked with bioinformaticians and now physicists and rust has never come up. > Köster, now at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was looking for a language that offered the “expressiveness” of Python but the speed of languages such as C and C++. In other words, “a high-performance language that is still, let’s say, ergonomic to use”, he explains. What he found was Rust. He must not have looked v…
Nim seems to have adopted a lot of the trappings of rust in the last few years. Sort of weird he didn't see Julia first, as it's explicitly aimed at this group.
Re: Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
#10This article describes pretty much exactly why I turned to Rust for my scientific computing - high speed, far easier to use than C or C++, less bug prone.