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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by randomdata on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:48PM (#38873853)
No doubt it starts as an open question and slowly moves towards knowing.

Which isn't really much of a conflict. You can prove out your thoughts in a scripting language, and after the dust has settled you can move the workload to a systems language. Different jobs, different tools.

I guess if you're one of those weird religious types that insist there is only one true God (read: programming language) you might feel conflict, but nobody else cares.

Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by galaxyLogic on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:55PM (#38886186)
> Different jobs, different tools

And possibly different programmers.

Say your a (non-computer-) scientist. It is not (typically) part of your job to learn Rust or Haskell.

You might want to learn Rust if you are so inclined but many scientists are not.

Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by randomdata on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:22PM (#38888392)
I'm sure there are exceptions, but generally speaking, do scientists ever really end up working on systems?

Anecdotally, I work with a lot of scientists and they only write scripts. When systems are needed, they hand it off to the development team. Anyone can fumble through scripting, but there is a lot more to think about when building systems, and that's probably not something most scientists want to put effort into – for the same reasons they probably don't want to learn Rust.

Realistically, learning Rust is the easiest part of becoming a systems programmer. But there is little incentive to learn any system language if your workload is always scripting in nature. You are going to, rightfully, reach for a scripting language.