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I just got back into astrophysics after having been gone for 25 years, and no one uses IDL anymore.
by wumpus 5y ago
I just got back into astrophysics after having been gone for 25 years, and no one uses IDL anymore.
- codezero 5y agoI’d love to know what it looks like now. I knew a few folks doing a lot of GPU work, but so many old folks still making charts and figures in IDL, myself included.
- wumpus 5y agoIt's mostly Python most of the time, from my vantage point. Several of the GPU projects I'm watching have GPU kernels contained inside of python frameworks. So the typical user only has to change the python part of the code.
- codezero 5y agoHah, that's fantastic. This reminds me of a talk I attended about how most of science/academia has a lot of fast-moving glue to stitch together all the old/hard bits. https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/12/agu-session-on-software-engineering-for-climate-modeling/ https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/12/agu-session-on-soft...