Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)

Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020) by staticassertion on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:23AM (#32340535)

Agree that "Scientist" means nothing. I assume that they're basically saying "people who used Python already to solve some sort of problem, but are not programmers".

Which is a very small part of the overall "scientist" world I think, who are probably not programming, or who may use matlab or python.

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Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020) by tialaramex on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:08AM (#32341117)

I would expect that new graduates in more or less any numerate subject do some programming these days.

I just looked, we (a major UK university) as well as having a Computer Science department to teach programming to obviously Computer Science and Electronics students as well as related disciplines such as Mathematics, other departments have their own staff teach programming for Physicists, Chemists, Psychologists, Geographers, and a bunch of social scientists who need Statistics. I just asked the API for courses about "programming" and then checked they didn't mean some other type of programming. So if say Law has a course named like "Coding in Javascript" for some reason I wouldn't have seen it.

The most obvious numerate discipline I thought of which doesn't teach programming was Medicine, and I guess they just couldn't find time to add yet another entire discipline's knowledge into the timetable.

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