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Using Rust for Scientific Numerical Applications: Learning from Past Experiences (esciencecenter.nl)
2 points by lukastyrychtr on April 16, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I doubt the author has used modern Fortran. With allocatable multidimensional arrays, whose dimensions can be queried with shape(), and which are automatically deallocated when they go out of scope, memory management is usually not a problem

"If you have ever worked in a medium to large size C/Fortran code base, you certainly know how incredibly difficult and frustrating it can be to maintain it. A recurrent complaint among the programmers in these languages is the dreadful bugs related to unsafe memory management that can take days to trace and reproduce. Fortran programmers are famously known for having segmentation faults for breakfast."


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