4 ms·
I think that's spot on. I coded quite a lot of C++ in the early 2000s. Now I'm considering to jump onboard again. C++11 and successors are almost a different la
by nextos 9y ago
I think that's spot on. I coded quite a lot of C++ in the early 2000s. Now I'm considering to jump onboard again. C++11 and successors are almost a different language.
More importantly, for my niche I don't see anything that can readily replace C++. Rust has very little support for scientific computing. Julia is great, and will replace my high level statistical inference code, but it's not designed to let me design low-level close-to-the-metal data structures. Scala has memory issues, which will be hopefully less problematic once value types are implemented in the JVM. OCaml and F# look interesting, I haven't evaluated these carefully.
- poster123 9y agoIf you are doing scientific computing, have you considered Fortran? The gfortran (GCC Fortran) compiler supports Fortran 2003, which has object-oriented features, and since Fortran 90 the language has had array operations and syntax similar to Matlab or Python with numpy.
- nextos 9y agoI'm not a big fan of Fortran for my particular domain, which includes lots of strings (biological sequences). Here Fortran is not as quick. See for example the k-nucleotide benchmark: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=knucleotide https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph...
- pjmlp 9y agoI worked with a customer that was using .NET for DNA sequencing. Not sure what tricks they pulled off regarding unsafe code and parallelism, but it was fully done in C#.
- vram22 9y agoWhat are Scala's memory issues?