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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by fulafel on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:13AM (#43523508)
> Rust feels like a Python developer’s idea of a high-performance computing language.

I'd say the language complexity (and it keeps piling more things) means it's pretty far from Python's ideas.

Julia is closer.

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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by andrepd on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:15AM (#43523520)
Rust is an extraordinary simple language. Compare it to the complexity of C++.
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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by fulafel on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:18AM (#43523547)
We can say that Mars is more similar to Earth than Jupiter even though Sagittarius A* exists.
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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by andrepd on Sunday March 30, 2025 @05:23PM (#43527791)
Unsure which celestial body is supposed to be which in this comparison :p
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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by vacuity on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:24AM (#43523994)
If you only compare against C++, maybe. Otherwise, no. C++ and Rust are in a class of their own when it comes to compile times and complexity.
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Re:Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later by andrepd on Sunday March 30, 2025 @05:22PM (#43527778)
Well C++ is the only major language (other than C itself) that occupies the same space. So it's natural that they are compared. And Rust is an order of magnitude simpler language than C++ almost comical web of intricacy.
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