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Not particularly my opinion, just an observation - when I've brought it up with physicist friends, they only knew the language as something Quants play with. Th
by Moissanite 4y ago
Not particularly my opinion, just an observation - when I've brought it up with physicist friends, they only knew the language as something Quants play with. Then again, physicists are weird - they seem to reach for C++ more often than Fortran.
- leephillips 4y agoMay I introduce a counterexample? I worked for 21 years as a computational physicist for the DoD. I never saw or heard about anyone using a C++ program. Everything was in Fortran, except for a special-purpose C dialect that we used for programming the Connection Machine. I understand that C++ is used in analysis of high energy physics experiments, though (although I’ve also heard that it‘s being phased out). I know of some large-scale physics simulations that are using Julia, and it’s widely considered the language to use for new projects. It’s what I use now for my physics hobby projects. I’d never heard about its finance-bro associations. And if I had, why would I give a crap?
- moelf 4y agowe're actively trying to move more end-users of high energy physics (HEP) into Julia https://github.com/JuliaHEP/ https://github.com/JuliaHEP/