My journey with Arch Linux began almost two decades ago. Back then, SUSE didn’t have a rolling release, and I found the frequent version updates of the “Leap” distributions incredibly annoying. To this day, I still think Arch is the coolest distro out there. Between the power of the AUR and community-maintained repos like archlinuxcn […]

I recently read “Why Scientists are Turning to Rust” and found myself disagreeing with its core premise. At same time, there is also a broader pattern in the “Python vs. Rust” claiming that Rust is the future of scientific area–for Python+C/Fortran is current optimal–discourse that fundamentally misunderstands how scientific computing actually works.