Why scientists are turning to Rust

Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by bigger_cheese on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:02PM (#25271724)

Has someone attempted to write something like Numerical Recipes Textbook or the GSL Scientific Library using Rust a lot of people in my org use those two resources - especially the NR textbook all the time.

I've found a lot of people bash NR online as outdated but it has really clear explanation of how certain algorithms are written as well as clean to read code examples. Very helpful to follow along with an explanation of the algorithm and see it all laid out in front of you with code.

So maybe a modern version written in a newer language could be a hit.

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Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by dystroy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:31AM (#25274815)

I loved Numerical Recipes but it's the product of an old time. It was terribly useful but also in some complex parts very buggy and badly optimized.

Nowadays, a similar effort would have to be community driven, and open-source, and include the deep discussions for domain specializations.

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