I enjoyed the Rust talk. Seems like a great language for systems. Was hoping it'd be good for fast numerical code too but maybe not.
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Replying to @sigfpe
curious: what does C have that Rust doesn't? Is it an ecosystem / number of libraries thing? Or something missing from the language?
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For numerics, C++ over C. http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page … Lots inlining and supports dynamic and static size structures
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ah, I see, looks like it's making heavy use of templating, so it's not just a matter of providing an FFI binding.
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I believe there are plans to support type-level integers in
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https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1657 … if you care about the details!
10:32 PM - 6 Aug 2016
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