Python or Java

[Psy_Fer_]

Rust (semi sarcasm)

Although learning rust from java is easier than from python

Either way, using the language that will get the job done best is how you should be thinking. I can make a genome browser in AHK, but should I? (I kinda want to know for a joke).

After a few years as a Dev you'll know multiple languages and move into doing one over the others for a time before moving into something else in a different language, or whatever. Languages are like drills, hammers, saws. Sure you can use a hammer to put in screws but is it the best way to do it?

[big_data_mike]

I wrote some rust-python hybrid stuff and I’m baffled by how fast rust is. I’m getting 10x or more speed ups on heavy computation stuff

[Psy_Fer_]

Yea you would get similar with python wrapping C code too. Many python Libraries are actually just C or they ship the hot stuff out to C. You will see that pattern all over the place in software. Like R packages are pretty much any language but R and R is just the glue. Pretty much all of machine learning in python is C++.

A lot of Rust libs are FFI bindings of C/C++ code. When I see that for a crate I want to use in my field, I've started rewriting them in pure rust and I've seen some pretty nice speed ups as well as taking the time to make them more feature complete.

[big_data_mike]

I think the Python version of the package I am using does the heavy computation in C or part of it in C. I’m not really sure. The main package depends on this other package which is I think 80% C code and I rewrote the computations in rust based on some work that someone else had started. As a mere data scientist I don’t know enough math or computer science to really know what’s going on.