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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 18:58:18 JST silverpill

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   • Christian Lawson-Perfect
   • chris

   @chris @christianp Yes, Rust wouldn't be my choice for a quick job. The development with it is significantly slower compared to other languages (traded for runtime performance and robustness).

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     chris@mitra.northumbria.me's status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 18:58:19 JST chris

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     • Christian Lawson-Perfect

     @christianp Maybe as a Rust expert @silverpill can confirm this, but from what I've heard Rust is not for "quick" jobs. It believe it has an unusual memory allocation paradigm which, like everything in Rust, is strictly compiler enforced so that when your not so quickly written code compiles it is likely to be big free and robust.

     Anyway don't you mathematicians have plenty of domain specific languages already‽

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     Christian Lawson-Perfect (christianp@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 18:58:21 JST Christian Lawson-Perfect

     Tried and failed again to use Rust for a quick computationally intensive job.

     Stop throwing compilation errors at me! I am a nice boy!!