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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by scardine on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:32AM (#18280732)
tl;dr: despite being relatively slow Python is a fantastic glue language. Some people thing rust is well positioned to steal Python's dinner.
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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by mbo on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:12AM (#18280869)
To be fair, it's much more likely that Julia will be stealing Python's dinner, rather than Rust.
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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by olavk on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:13AM (#18281367)
Django is not going to be rewritten in Julia. Neither is Linux going to be rewritten in Python. Different languages have different domains. Some of these comments seem to think all languages is competing in the same domain as if Rust is a direct competitor to Julia or JavaScript.
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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by mbo on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:30AM (#18281963)
The context of the comment I replied to was that Python was fantastic glue code _for scientific computing_. Julia won't won't impinge on Django's usage share.
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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by olavk on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:09AM (#18281350)
Rust will not steal Pythons dinner, they are used for completely different domains. The comment was saying that Rust might be a realistic alternative to C/C++/Fortran for modules which are not written in Python.
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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by ilovecaching on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:43AM (#18280775)
That's not what I said. I said Rust was a good candidate for all the things Python is using to actually do useful work. The underlying libraries written in Fortran, C, and C++.

Don't tl;dr; if you don't know how to r.

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