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sreantoday at 8:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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Archit3chtoday at 8:27 AM

They had to patch the Rust compiler to natively support AutoDiff.

Contrast with Julia where it can be a regular Julia library,

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bonzinitoday at 10:26 AM

No, they're implementing all functions, all matching etc. in Rust.

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