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Why isn't Rust top at modeling and simulation yet?

• nicolashahn 6y ago
  This is about Julia Computing, the company, not Julia the language.
  • kgwgk 6y ago
    Maybe they are using Rust, then...
    • KenoFischer 6y ago
      We're not. I do think Rust is a good language though and you may take my word that I have very strong opinions on language design :).
      • junippor 6y ago
        Julia is great, thank you for your work <3
      • kgwgk 6y ago
        I'm shocked :-)
    • andrewflnr 6y ago
      Julia Computing exists to commercialize the Julia language which exists to solve precisely this kind of problem without resorting to a lower-level language. So, probably not.
      • kgwgk 6y ago
        I was joking!
        • andrewflnr 6y ago
          Well, you never know with the fringe elements of the RESF. :)
  • vallas 6y ago
    I mean what is the Julia ecosystem focusing on that Rust would not (or similar languages)
    • oxinabox 6y ago
      Scientific and technical computing. --- Not saying you can't do this stuff in rust. I mean its turing complete. But contrast the description of Rust: A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. vs Julia Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing. Julia is for doing "technical computing". Things like simulations, problems where you need to apply a bunch of math. Its easy to write math in julia. The syntax is designed for it (like look at code for manipulating matrixes). The semantics are designed for it (multiple dispatch is the thing you need for efficient linear algebra for example. Specializing on each combination of matrixes)
      • vallas 6y ago
        Thanks for clearing. I'm not familiar with Julia' Syntax but I don't doubt its pros over Python. I see why I got unvoted, I think my question was more if Rust (as a metal language) could really help make simulation techs like Julia better than the standards. I don't know.
        • markkitti 6y ago
          If by "metal language" you mean a language that produces machine assembly, then Julia is also a metal language. Both Rust and Julia use the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
• smabie 6y ago
  What advantage does Rust have over Julia? I can think of a lot of disadvantages, but not many advantages.
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