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Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which language?
Suppose you were going to create a compute-intensive cross-platform library in 2024. What would you use? C, C++, Rust, or something else?
- Bostonian 2y agoIf the domain is scientific computing, consider Fortran, for which compilers are available on most platforms.
- pklausler 2y agoIt depends how portable they want their code to be across implementations and over time. Fortran compilers vary widely in their interpretations of the language, more so than mainstream C/C++ compilers do.