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I work in the embedded space, but the majority of my work is writing simuators, mathematical models and tests. One of the hidden benefits for us was that rust i

I work in the embedded space, but the majority of my work is writing simuators, mathematical models and tests. One of the hidden benefits for us was that rust is suitable for both resource-constrained embedded code (we use a lot of C for this) and high-level desktop and cloud based infrastructure/sim/test code, which we would never consider writing in C. Serde is amazing, crates.io has so much good stuff on it, C interop is a breeze. We still use Python/matlab for exploratory and data-sciency work, but as soon as something lives for more than about 6 months, it usually gets re-written in rust.

adamnemecek 7y ago
Now switch to Julia instead of Python/matlab and you have a really solid stack.
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- locust98 7y ago
  Julia lost its momentum, and for good reasons: insuficient or rushed up libraries, no option for the generation of standalone executables and general overselling (by the way, bashing Python at every opportunity didn't lead to a higher volume of users)
  - adamnemecek 7y ago
    It didn't lose momentum.
  - byt143 7y ago
    Not sure the data supports that ,: https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2020/01/06/january-newsletter.html https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2020/01/06/january-newslette...