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> Different jobs, different tools And possibly different programmers. Say your a (non-computer-) scientist. It is not (typically) part of your job to learn R
by galaxyLogic 3y ago
> Different jobs, different tools
And possibly different programmers.
Say your a (non-computer-) scientist.
It is not (typically) part of your job
to learn Rust or Haskell.
You might want to learn Rust if you are so inclined
but many scientists are not.
- randomdata 3y agoI'm sure there are exceptions, but generally speaking, do scientists ever really end up working on systems? Anecdotally, I work with a lot of scientists and they only write scripts. When systems are needed, they hand it off to the development team. Anyone can fumble through scripting, but there is a lot more to think about when building systems, and that's probably not something most scientists want to put effort into – for the same reasons they probably don't want to learn Rust. Realistically, learning Rust is the easiest part of becoming a systems programmer. But there is little incentive to learn any system language if your workload is always scripting in nature. You are going to, rightfully, reach for a scripting language.