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0 pointsYoric3y ago0 comments

While this is largely true, the Python situation remains a mess that needs to be resolved.

Also, Rust seems to indicate that being general purpose and interfacing with lots of legacy C (and some C++) aren't the issues.

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bayesian_horse3y ago· 1 in thread

Nope, Rust is not doing anything better. It is doing significantly less. The fewer packages you have the fewer dependency issues you run into. Rust will still run into the same DLL issues on Windows, requiring custom solutions, once the package ecosystem comes anywhere close to what Python offers.

YoricOP3y ago

I'm not sure how we ended up discussing dll. You were writing about "interfacing with lots of legacy C,C++ and Fortran Code", which is something else entirely. Does this mean that we agree that "interfacing with lots of legacy C,C++ and Fortran Code" is not the issue and that we have moved to another issue?

Dynamic libraries can definitely be a problem, across languages. I've seen plenty of crates that rely on platform-specific .so/.dylib, so I'm not really nervous about that being supported, but it's absolutely possible that there may be Windows-specific issues that I haven't heard about.

edit Complete rewrite, let's hope nobody has responded yet :)

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