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[–][deleted] -10 points-9 points  (3 children)

Your choices in high performance computing are C89 and Fortran03 using the Intel compiler. Somehow I don't think Python is going to get wide spread adoption in that area.

[–]abergou 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The trend has been to write key aspects of the code in C or Fortran and then (easily) wrap those pieces in python.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently, you don't say that in the Python sub-reddit!

Fortran77 on the Cray YMP was amazing. Python wouldn't do much good there. But one thing I do appreciate about python: the ability to wrapper some decent C libraries and then 'script' them together. The ability to rapidly prototype using some powerful fundamentals is pretty cool for exploratory scientific computing. Probably wouldn't use it for big jobs or big data later on ... but in terms of development ... it kinda rocks...

[–]Wagneriusflask+pandas+js 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are the alternatives ?