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I'm not sure that there's a mature Rust alternative to "all of the above" quite yet. Some things that I've had to build for my own work (not always "built," som
by peterhj 10y ago
I'm not sure that there's a mature Rust alternative to "all of the above" quite yet. Some things that I've had to build for my own work (not always "built," sometimes I just wrote FFI bindings) include:
* N-D dense arrays, fashionably simply called tensors these days ;) (this I wrote from scratch to suit my own needs, but there are several implementations of this in Rust, as well as in C++)
* linear algebra (bindings to BLAS, LAPACK etc.)
* numerical integration (bindings to GSL or QUADPACK)
* optimization and machine learning (this I work on day-to-day)
* neural networks (I also work on this)
* multicore/manycore/GPU/distributed support (and this)
There's also the more practical aspects of using Pandas/iPython (Jupyter)/Spark for data science, including ETL, interactive work, and plotting, which IMO are not quite there yet in the Rust ecosystem. But I think that a lot of the pieces are there, e.g. bleeding fast CSV parsing libraries (https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv), and what's left is the important last mile of bringing these things together in ergonomic libraries or frameworks.