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Finanally, c++ is the only language I would ever want to do linear algebra in, or for that matter, many graph algorithms. Rust is adding features to make it useful for linalg, but it’s not their yet. Linear algebra is important!

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Perhaps syntactically C++‘s operator overloading can make it quite palatable, but C and C++’s unique aliasing rules would mean that a naive implementation could leave performance on the table. There’s a reason it’s almost always Fortran at the bottom of the stack in most LinAlg codes in most languages.

> Finanally, c++ is the only language I would ever want to do linear algebra in

Isn't something like MATLAB better for linear algebra than C++?

Or Fortran or Julia.

I don’t want to use Fortran! Julia is lovely

Low level linalg... implementing solvers using openmp and CUDA

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