Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences?
by davrosthedalek on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:50PM
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To be fair, it is my impression that even in data science, python is more a less a scripting language, and all the libraries which do the heavy lifting computing-wise are written in something else, because speed. Has this changed?
Sure, but for every line of code in such a library there's a hundred (or hundred thousand) lines of code that use that library. A small bunch of people maintain some CUDA code that's underneath a Python wrapper, but great many people write code that uses it.
Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences?
by pathseeker on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:12PM
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The underlying libraries may be in C, but the vast majority of data scientists never need to alter the C so it's fair to say most data science code is written in python. Python/Numpy/pandas has enabled data scientists to avoid writing C entirely.
Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences?
by chasontherobot on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:53PM
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about as much FORTRAN as C I believe
Practically, while data science / ML / etc work is a big part of Python, I'd wager a much larger part is still web development work (Django et all). And of course, just using it as a "scripting" language, or using it to create GUIs, etc.