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FORTRAN may be faster but one graph shows Python recently overtaking it in mentions of Astronomy papers [0]. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/astrofrog/status/78
by hcrisp 10y ago
FORTRAN may be faster but one graph shows Python recently overtaking it in mentions of Astronomy papers [0].
[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/astrofrog/status/787007261877166080 https://mobile.twitter.com/astrofrog/status/7870072618771660...
- arcanus 10y agoA great deal of that is for post-processing, however. Very little python used in the compute heavy pieces of scientific computation.
- maus42 10y agoI know a person who works in atmospheric physics group. All the heavy physics simulation and modeling happens in Fortran, and then they do the "lighter" analysis, summary statistics, plots, visualizations, etc with a Python-based stack.