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Python and R are the two go to modern programming languages for number crunching. Fortran still has a lot of sway. C has a little. Rust is totally irrelevent

• hobofan 4y ago
  For everything high-performance in some scientific areas (like bioinformatics in the article), all the heavy number crunching isn't done by Python or R, but by underlying C/C++ libraries. And from having seen some of those libraries, my impression is that many are riddled with memory problems (even more so than other C/C++ code due to the FFI boundary to the wrapping language) and could benefit from being written in Rust.