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sfdlkj3jk342a | 2 months ago

> The moment you need C’s performance or assembly’s precision, you’ve crossed into territory that demands human accountability.

I disagree. I write a lot of one-off numerical simulations where something quick and dirty is useful but performance matters and the results can be easily verified without analyzing every line of code. Python would be a terrible choice.

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glouwbug|2 months ago

You'd be hard pressed to do any really damage with numerical simulations outside of NaN propagations. C's problems come from the standard library