Why hasn’t Rust gained the same recognition as Python in AI, ML, and DS, despite its significant ecosystem potential and notably better speed compared to Python?

Also, why haven’t people actively developed Rust libraries for data analysis and processing, similar to what has been done in Python?

  • mtocrat@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Training jobs for LLMs are quite possibly the biggest programs ever run in terms of compute and yet they use python. “Better speed” is often not true in a way that is actually relevant since cpu speed is generally just not your bottleneck.