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Port the whole codebase to Rust!

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🪲 Problem The python code is slow for obvious reasons, and the ecosystem for rust is growing. I am sure not for Scientific Community, but for developers. So why not?

Rust was the most loved language in Developers survey conducted by Stack Overflow. This can be a long term goal!

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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shreyasbapatcommented, Mar 25, 2020

We can help develop Rust in process 😃

This is a long term issue.

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JeS24commented, Mar 25, 2020

@shreyasbapat I would rather recommend Julia for this. Rust is certainly lovely for a lot of reasons, but Julia mostly offers similar performance and more importantly, a solid scientific computing stack, which Rust currently lacks.

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