I had some students come ask me about implementing material from my numerical analysis course (which used Julia) in part of their Rust student group. I’m not an expert, but my feeling is that Rust is a “safer” language, which to me means it must be slower. That is, Rust is designed for “systems” whe…

I think I should recap what was discussed (as I understand it): The cost of bounds checking can be avoided in Rust by compile-time “proofs” of correctness, which are somehow done in the type system. There is also get_unchecked, which is unsafe. So I think the conclusion is that it is possible to a…

I am not claiming rust is more terse than Julia, but to be fair, you are rather comparing (std)libraries than the core languages. Note that rust‘s std is minimal by design. In rust you could also cheat like use random_string::generate; let alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST…

[image] Akatz: How do new generation static languages with type and function polymorphism guarantee performance without requiring a concretely typed entrypoint or call site? (rust, templated C++, Dex, Swift). C++ is like Julia. Templates aren’t checked except for instantiations. But having a…

[image] Elrod: C++ is like Julia. Templates aren’t checked except for instantiations. This was later corrected .

I strongly agree with the desire for a tiered JIT. That is #1 on my compiler wish list. [image] goerch: This was later corrected . No. This is a powerful system of dispatch that would be great to have in Julia, but it is still like Julia in terms of (not) checking. Nothing is checked, other…

I am not sure, I understand your argument correctly. Maybe this article helps: No, dynamic type systems are not inherently more open ? tl;dr Statically typed languages with a proper™ type system can be as vague or concrete as necessary. In any case, you need to know something about a functions argu…

Are you referring to something akin to Python‘s type hints that together with static linters like mypy introduce a gradual type system into python?

Maybe? I haven’t really thought it through, but it could be something like that. In a very vague sense, it just seems that Julia has ample syntax for type annotations/hints already, and I think if we just disallowed a few things, one could more or less treat it as a pretty strongly typed language al…

[image] cgeoga: an easier method for one-off scripts with deps (Sorry a bit off-topic below) I have just tried searching the net, and possibly this kind of things might help…? (I have no experience with it so not very sure it fits the purpose, though) Announcing cargo-single: conveniently b…

Yes, that is one approach, but it does not provide general compile-time bounds checking. It restricts what you can do so that the kinds of array access operations that cannot be checked simply cannot be used. You could certainly argue that this is fine, even desirable, since it can be handled by in…

Comparison of Rust to Julia for scientific computing?

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Akatz March 28, 2022, 6:54pm 55

See my excerpts from Jeff’s thesis here @yonjuni : State of machine learning in Julia - #28 by Akatz

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Comparison of Rust to Julia for scientific computing?

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