Are they? I worked with bioinformaticians and now physicists and rust has never come up.
> Köster, now at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was looking for a language that offered the “expressiveness” of Python but the speed of languages such as C and C++. In other words, “a high-performance language that is still, let’s say, ergonomic to use”, he explains. What he found was Rust.
He must not have looked very far. There are much better options if you're looking for the expressiveness of Python. Personally I'm very fond of Nim.
> Köster, now at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was looking for a language that offered the “expressiveness” of Python but the speed of languages such as C and C++. In other words, “a high-performance language that is still, let’s say, ergonomic to use”, he explains. What he found was Rust.
He must not have looked very far. There are much better options if you're looking for the expressiveness of Python. Personally I'm very fond of Nim.