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by actimia 2476 days ago
'there is widely used software written in language x' != 'language x is good'

C++ definitely has its uses (and for a long time was best-in-class for many of them) but it is largely being superseded by other options (not necessarily Rust).
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xiphias2 2476 days ago
Just as an example it's really hard for me to do low level CUDA GPU programming in any other language.

I'm trying hard to use Julia, but understanding its PTX output is really hard for me, and also I don't know how to use the matrix multiplying GPU instructions.

Rust's PTX output is not supported, so I haven't really tried it.

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