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Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by nicolashahn on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:51AM (#26426104)
This is about Julia Computing, the company, not Julia the language.
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by vallas on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:02PM (#26426978)
I mean what is the Julia ecosystem focusing on that Rust would not (or similar languages)
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by oxinabox on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:33PM (#26427323)
Scientific and technical computing.

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Not saying you can't do this stuff in rust. I mean its turing complete.

But contrast the description of Rust: A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

vs Julia Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing.

Julia is for doing "technical computing". Things like simulations, problems where you need to apply a bunch of math. Its easy to write math in julia. The syntax is designed for it (like look at code for manipulating matrixes). The semantics are designed for it (multiple dispatch is the thing you need for efficient linear algebra for example. Specializing on each combination of matrixes)

Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by vallas on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:18PM (#26427854)
Thanks for clearing. I'm not familiar with Julia' Syntax but I don't doubt its pros over Python. I see why I got unvoted, I think my question was more if Rust (as a metal language) could really help make simulation techs like Julia better than the standards. I don't know.
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by markkitti on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:01PM (#26430624)
If by "metal language" you mean a language that produces machine assembly, then Julia is also a metal language. Both Rust and Julia use the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by kgwgk on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:10PM (#26426357)
Maybe they are using Rust, then...
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by KenoFischer on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:50PM (#26426845)
We're not. I do think Rust is a good language though and you may take my word that I have very strong opinions on language design :).
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by junippor on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:59PM (#26426933)
Julia is great, thank you for your work <3
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by kgwgk on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:07PM (#26427042)
I'm shocked :-)
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by andrewflnr on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:12PM (#26427788)
Julia Computing exists to commercialize the Julia language which exists to solve precisely this kind of problem without resorting to a lower-level language. So, probably not.
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by kgwgk on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:43PM (#26429363)
I was joking!
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simu... by andrewflnr on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:22PM (#26430794)
Well, you never know with the fringe elements of the RESF. :)