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What high-performance language to learn [for bioinformatics]?
- samuell 3y agoSee Heng's tweet about the post: https://twitter.com/lh3lh3/status/1765822352661618836 https://twitter.com/lh3lh3/status/1765822352661618836 ... and also his previous post comparing a couple of fast languages, including Rust, C, Crystal, Nim, Julia, Go and PyPy: Post: https://lh3.github.io/2020/05/17/fast-high-level-programming-languages https://lh3.github.io/2020/05/17/fast-high-level-programming... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229657
- lskatz 3y agoI, for one, welcome our Rust overlords
- npalli 3y agoLOL, it's a very hard language to learn, despite Rust evangelists claiming it comes naturally to them since they were babies. I think you need to be very deep systems programmer (understand memory, lifetimes etc.) to be effective in Rust. Good luck getting bioinformatics folks to learn this language.