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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by PopeDotNinja on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:02AM (#23497093)
Probably the same reason Python is big in scientific computing. A lot of stuff has already been written for it. If scientists needed to bootstrap scientific computing from scratch, Python wouldn’t be any more established than Rust, Java, PHP, or VB6.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by calaphos on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:13AM (#23498080)
Afaik pythons success in that field is relatively recent, only really taking of ~2010. The language was already 20 years old by then. Compare that to rusts first stable release in 2015.

Building ecosystem just takes time.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by MacSystem on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:08PM (#23555428)
Python is easy to just start writing then the network effect made others use it
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