Dabbling in Julia and then recently beginning to learn rust, it seems to me that the two languages have a lot in common. My impression now is that the most fundamental differences are that Julia has: dynamic typing JiT compilation (as opposed to ahead-of-time) garbage collection Each of these de…

Multiple dispatch: [image] For Julia programmers who also work with Rust: When you write in Rust, do you miss Julia's multiple dispatch, or are there features of Rust that make up for that loss? Offtopic Sorry if this is too off-topic, I’ll delete it if so.

My impression was that, while rust functions don’t have multiple dispatch, generic rust traits can have multiple dispatch, which lets you accomplish pretty much the same thing (though it’s more verbose). For example: impl MyTrait<i32, &str> for MyStruct { fn foo(self, x: i32, y: &str) { ... } } …

[image] Jasha10: Dabbling in Julia and then recently beginning to learn rust, it seems to me that the two languages have a lot in common. For comparisons of Julia and Rust, see e.g. Rust / Julia Comparison Post Rust vs Julia Comparison of Rust to Julia for scientific computing? Probably it…

I’m fairly confident that overloads like that are resolved entirely statically in Rust, which makes it not dispatch of any kind, let alone multiple. Syntactically similar, expressively very different.

Julia == rust + dynamic_typing + JiT + GC?

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Jeff_Emanuel January 10, 2023, 10:36pm 2

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Julia == rust + dynamic_typing + JiT + GC?

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