Rust vs Julia

blindseer
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:35:49 +0000
Offtopic

I’d like to compare the use of Julia to Rust for an application in mind that involves a lot of matrix operations and parallelization. I wanted to get informed opinions from the Julia community. Have people here used Rust? What are your thoughts on the language versus Julia? Are there scenarios you would use Rust? For me the effort required to develop in Rust in order to avoid the garbage collector seemed very large, given that Julia is a prime position to serve my use case.

Specifically, in a scenario where I want to build a shared library that I can then use to build Julia/Python/Java bindings to, I am trying to identify whether Julia or Rust serve the purpose better.

I had originally created a discussion topic over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399466

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