Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust
by LordHeini on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:49PM
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Yep, with the exception of the computery fields of pyhsics, they cold not care less about programming languages.
I have seen physicists write entire non trivial image processing pipelines in Matlab. Where they happily processed gigabytes of images made by some weird microscope costing stupid amounts of €.
It (mostly and somehow) works but it is slow as hell (porting to c++ cut the time to run a process from 1 day to a few seconds).
They never even bothered with a "real" language because the "computer guys" can port that stuff if need be.
I have seen physicists write entire non trivial image processing pipelines in Matlab. Where they happily processed gigabytes of images made by some weird microscope costing stupid amounts of €.
It (mostly and somehow) works but it is slow as hell (porting to c++ cut the time to run a process from 1 day to a few seconds).
They never even bothered with a "real" language because the "computer guys" can port that stuff if need be.
If you have a hammer...