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IMO the ongoing trend of moving everything academic to C++ is just awful. I still don't get why everything thinks a language-to-rule-them-all is what should be
by m_mueller 10y ago
IMO the ongoing trend of moving everything academic to C++ is just awful. I still don't get why everything thinks a language-to-rule-them-all is what should be used by default, especially in the age of LLVM. IMO Alan Kay and his research group has always had exactly the right ideas in this regard. I think iPython/Jupyter + Numpy + some kind of JITed Fortran 2008 environment with accelerator support would be a nearly ideal scientific computing environment. Basically a free, open source and blazingly fast (HPC ready) version of Matlab.
- hprotagonist 10y agothis is how my field is going. (biomedical/neurosci). Of course, since numpy is effectively a nice shell on top of linpack, my original assertion still holds.