distsysdude

> He’s aware of other languages, as he reveals in his answer to a later question. (“I think C++ can do anything Rust can do, and I would like it to be much simpler to use.”) And towards the end, he couldn’t resist noting that longevity has its advantages. “It’s highly humorous when some of the Rust people come up and accuse me of having stolen some of their ideas without acknowledging — when some of the things I did I actually did almost 40 years ago.”

Does anyone know what these accusations were? Given that C++ has been around for so long, It's incredulous to think that anyone from the Rust community can put forth such a claim.

>The problem of Rust is that it keeps inventing instead of stabilizing. Incredible smart people write great libs ... version 0.12 ...

Thanks for sharing this, Stability of Rust never crossed my mind and I think you make a valid point.

I would love to hear what other Rust dev's think about this. The main motto behind the nightly builds seems to be "Stability Without Stagnation".

But is stability actually taking a hit because of this model.?

Thanks for sharing this, I took a look and Materialize seems to be really good.!

Thank you for taking time to answer this!

I honestly thought that my lack of formal education would be hurdle when learning/working on Distributed Systems. Don't you agree?

Also, I've always wondered how ML models are deployed in production at scale. Building a model using libraries in Python seems fine, but how do they distribute and deploy it in Production?

I'm not quite sure about that. For example, I dont think any major Database vendor has considered using ML algorithms inside a DB. Google did try replacing B-Tree indexes with Neural networks, but that was only a research project and it wouldn't have been possible to scale it up to meet production demands.

But I think I understand where you're coming from and I should definitely try to widen my knowledge base.

Thank you for taking time to answer this!

I never knew that distributed physics simulations could be a career field. I always thought that such problems would be handled by scaling up vertically or just throwing a super computer at it.

If you don't mind, can you please elaborate a bit about the type of work that you do and scope of problems that you solve every day?

Thanks again!.