I re-learned my love for TypeScript, learned some more Fortran (still at the basics as I am working on prototyping ideas in Python). I learned a lot on how to translate custom code into a different language,
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That is super cool. I have dabbled a time or two in integrating a lower level language into a python package. I just have never had a use case to go much further. I think that would be an amazing skill to have!
have you tried cython, or any of the other python "compilers"?
I re-learned my love for TypeScript, learned some more Fortran (still at the basics as I am working on prototyping ideas in Python). I learned a lot on how to translate custom code into a different language,
That is super cool. I have dabbled a time or two in integrating a lower level language into a python package. I just have never had a use case to go much further. I think that would be an amazing skill to have!
have you tried cython, or any of the other python "compilers"?
Yeah, I have. They work fine however in my opinion they feel slow.
Just out of curiosity, 2 Questions:
Why do you learn Fortran? I'd guess that there are no significant performance advantages to modern C++ oder even just C
Are you a physicist?
I really like the syntax, especially compared to C and C++
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