# Blog post: Rust vs Julia in scientific computing

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-rust-vs-julia-in-scientific-computing/101711>\
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**Created:** [July 17, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-rust-vs-julia-in-scientific-computing/101711 "2023-07-17T22:17:20Z")\
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Regarding Julia 2.0, there is no real concrete plan for that to happen any time soon and there is plenty of non-breaking work to do before then. Within Julia 1.x, Julia is committed to backwards compatability, although there have been some known exceptions. For example, the default dynamic task scheduler is potentially an issue for old code. Packages such as Compat.jl also help with forwards compatability.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s Stephan Karpinski on the topic.

> [@The future of Julia, 1.6, 1.7-rc1, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 2.0 and LTS](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-julia-1-6-1-7-rc1-1-8-1-9-1-10-and-2-0-and-lts/68143/4):
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> At this point I don’t think there’s any breaking changes that seem worth it, and there’s been so much non-breaking improvements and other work to do that there hasn’t been any bandwidth available to think about 2.0 issues. I suspect at some point 1.x work will slow down a bit and we’ll get some more capacity to stop and think about 2.0 kinds of changes, but that time just hasn’t happened yet.

Also above that post you can see Matt Bauman saying note to take too much from the 2.0 milestone marking in Github.

Julia might have an easier time at maintaining backwards compatability than Rust since generally Julia source code is the primary form that is distributed.

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