Re:Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released
by steveklabnik on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:08PM
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It is and it isn't; that is, from a language perspective, the big thing here is type-level integers, which we accepted an RFC for, but is going to take some time to land due to implementation work being tough. It'll get there though!
As for a library ffast-math, it's mostly that we rarely hear people asking for it. I think that many people who want to do numerics stuff are waiting on the above; once it lands, I think more people will start writing libraries. Time will tell!
Rust doesn't have any sort of equivalent to ffast-math yet. :( I think their version (with 'fast' floating point types) would be nicer than the program-wide flags you get in C++ through the usual C++ compilers.
In general numerical-heavy code doesn't seem to be high on Rust's priority list (the math libraries are still fairly anemic). This is a shame, I would love to use Rust in anger!