Rust is widely used in bioinformatics, as is C++. Largely because people developing new tools often have to write their own low-level algorithms and data struct

Rust is widely used in bioinformatics, as is C++. Largely because people developing new tools often have to write their own low-level algorithms and data structures. Many tools deal with sequencing data, which means collections of strings that cannot be parsed or tokenized in any meaningful way. The collections are often very large, and the strings can also be very long. The standard algorithmic toolkit you learn when doing a CS degree (or a PhD in algorithms) is inadequate with such data. Hence, if you go to a CS conference focused on combinatorial algorithms and data structures, the presented work is often motivated by applications in bioinformatics.