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Why would you use a genetic algorithm to solve a traveling salesman problem or vehicle routing problem? Get real. That's a very bad mapping.

Genetic algorithm thrives when you have a lot of variables that can be optimized to gain a favorable behavior and those optimizations are unknown.

Saying it's not brilliant because it's simple is like saying that binary search or merge sort is not brilliant because they are simple.

Checkout latest research in Vehicle Routing Problem, its filled with GA/Ants and similar nonsense.

On the other hand you have TSP which murdered all those GA algorithms with a proper Lin-Kernighan heuristic implementation.

I'm not sure if we are talking about same problems. > Saying it's not brilliant

I said they were simple and that's why people like them.