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zerofan on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Rust 1.12.1

If you think Rust is ready for high performance computing, I suspect you don't do HPC for a living and you haven't tried to do it with Rust. It's not just missing the needed libraries.

rfrey on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

Can you expand on that?

laxentasken on Oct 21, 2016 | | [–]

What else is missing?

whyever on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

I think it works as a C replacement in HPC. Maybe not a C++ replacement (mostly because of missing integer generics).

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