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tl;dr: despite being relatively slow Python is a fantastic glue language. Some people thing rust is well positioned to steal Python's dinner.
by scardine 8y ago
tl;dr: despite being relatively slow Python is a fantastic glue language. Some people thing rust is well positioned to steal Python's dinner.
- ilovecaching 8y agoThat's not what I said. I said Rust was a good candidate for all the things Python is using to actually do useful work. The underlying libraries written in Fortran, C, and C++. Don't tl;dr; if you don't know how to r.
- mbo 8y agoTo be fair, it's much more likely that Julia will be stealing Python's dinner, rather than Rust.
- olavk 8y agoDjango is not going to be rewritten in Julia. Neither is Linux going to be rewritten in Python. Different languages have different domains. Some of these comments seem to think all languages is competing in the same domain as if Rust is a direct competitor to Julia or JavaScript.
- mbo 8y agoThe context of the comment I replied to was that Python was fantastic glue code _for scientific computing_. Julia won't won't impinge on Django's usage share.
- olavk 8y agoRust will not steal Pythons dinner, they are used for completely different domains. The comment was saying that Rust might be a realistic alternative to C/C++/Fortran for modules which are not written in Python.