alt Hacker NewsMy issue is that Mathematica is essentially a term rewriting system. Reimplementing everything in Rust seems to go against the idea. The derivative computation is 400 lines of Rust and could be 20 lines of Mathematica code.
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srean • today at 8:06 AM
I have not looked at the implementation but isn't the idea to write a Lispy language in Rust (in other words, Mathematica the language) and then write the differentiation and other routines in that.
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My theory is that writing as much as possible in Rust will improve performance and produce higher-quality code due to Rust's static typing. So far, it's been working well, but the final verdict is still out.