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Yeah, there is a large community of Python users in scientific computing. It's great. I like well-established languages with a large user base. So, I was dism
by drauh 11y ago
Yeah, there is a large community of Python users in scientific computing. It's great.
I like well-established languages with a large user base.
So, I was dismayed by Big Data Genomics' ADAM Project's choice of Scala, which has almost no uptake in the genomics/bioinformatics community.
They do it because they run over Spark. But Spark has an excellent Python binding.
- justthistime_ 11y agoPython's days have come and gone. Computation has grown more complicated. They need real computer scientists and a real language that supports real development, not some scientists which learned just enough Python to automate running some 20 year old Fortran code.
- Lofkin 11y agoSo Julia then :)