Very interesting. I’ve written a jit compiler (github.com/siravan/symjit) for sympy in rust (sympy is Python’s computer algebra system), covering x64 and aarch64. If you ever decide to add floating point or even SIMD instructions to rue, some of the symjit’s lower level routines may come handy.

Interesting. Good old way of doing things. It has Doom’s source vibe. However, I’m not sure if on a modern processor, using packed fp16 and simd instructions, using integers is that much faster.

Typst?

Pandoc is already doing a decent job, but still has glitches, especially for math formulas.

I have done this. Not the easiest option but definitely doable. I prefer Typst for actually writing the paper and plan the same until journals start accepting Typst. You can use pandoc for conversion and then manual edit. Painful but doable.

I’m very glad you are becoming active here. I miss the good old days of the math and science twitter. I really enjoyed following you back then and hope to find a vibrant community here.

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Actually the whole book is about frogs, whose pond dried and they were moving to another pond. Steinbeck just used humans as metaphor for frogs.

Java is just in the middle of the chain. Its OO was derivative from C++, which in turn was partially based on Simula (a 1960’s Norwegian simulation language).

Julia maybe, although it is more lisp than rust.

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I found it interesting that Musk apparently loves Iain Bank's Culture series and has named his drone ships after the books, but he has not yet realized that they represent a utopian communist society. Maybe a better humanities literacy would have helped.