Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which language?

Posted by kenarsa on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:35AM
from the self-post dept.

Suppose you were going to create a compute-intensive cross-platform library in 2024. What would you use? C, C++, Rust, or something else?

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Re:Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which language? by Bostonian on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:58AM (#40428590)

If the domain is scientific computing, consider Fortran, for which compilers are available on most platforms.

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Re:Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which language? by pklausler on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:07AM (#40429434)

It depends how portable they want their code to be across implementations and over time. Fortran compilers vary widely in their interpretations of the language, more so than mainstream C/C++ compilers do.

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