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I mean what is the Julia ecosystem focusing on that Rust would not (or similar languages)

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Scientific and technical computing.

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Not saying you can't do this stuff in rust. I mean its turing complete.

But contrast the description of Rust: A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

vs Julia Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing.

Julia is for doing "technical computing". Things like simulations, problems where you need to apply a bunch of math. Its easy to write math in julia. The syntax is designed for it (like look at code for manipulating matrixes). The semantics are designed for it (multiple dispatch is the thing you need for efficient linear algebra for example. Specializing on each combination of matrixes)

Thanks for clearing. I'm not familiar with Julia' Syntax but I don't doubt its pros over Python. I see why I got unvoted, I think my question was more if Rust (as a metal language) could really help make simulation techs like Julia better than the standards. I don't know.

If by "metal language" you mean a language that produces machine assembly, then Julia is also a metal language. Both Rust and Julia use the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

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