Mostly Painless Scientific Computing with Rust
DescriptionScientific software is required to be fast, painless to change, and easy to deploy. Historically, compiled languages such as C/C++ and Fortran have been preferred when writing software with the highest performance requirements. However these languages are complex, and the resulting software is challenging to maintain and deploy across platforms. We present our recent software projects written in Rust, a fast-growing, ergonomic, systems-level programming language with a toolchain designed for high-performance and simple cross platform builds. We illustrate the current state of the scientific computing ecosystem in Rust, through our experience developing high-performance MPI-distributed software for computational physics problems.