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Scientists didn't have a problem writing Fortran, back in its day. I doubt they'd have a problem with Rust or even C++ if they needed to.
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
Scientists didn't have a problem writing Fortran, back in its day. I doubt they'd have a problem with Rust or even C++ if they needed to.
- a-nikolaev 6y agoAnd that Fortran on average was pretty bad. Any language that requires certain level of discipline will have hard time to be adopted at a large scale. And this is why Python, R, and "C/C++" are still the best friends for most people in scientific software development.