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It also leads the readers down the dead-end. Python is incapable of parallelism, the only way to badly emulate it is to launch several runtimes. Writing any sci
by Mikhail_K 6y ago
It also leads the readers down the dead-end. Python is incapable of parallelism, the only way to badly emulate it is to launch several runtimes. Writing any scientific software in a badly design language when better alternatives exist is wasted time and effort.
- haihaibye 6y agoIt would be nice to have a faster, parallel Python but the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R. For most scientists, programming productivity matters the most, and plenty of programs are embarassingly parallel. For instance it's no trouble at all just launching a single threaded Python program once per sequencing sample, and it plays nicely with the supercomputer queuing system.
- Mikhail_K 6y ago> the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R. That is debatable