Science tools borrow Rust
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Claims that core Octave routines can be ported to Rust surface along with concrete work: rewrote matrix and complex routines using a custom Matrix struct, a Dimension trait and PhantomData-inspired typing, leverages num for complex arithmetic, and borrows NDArray ideas. Performance and safety improve—Rust compiler catches many errors that used to appear as long-running Octave runtime failures—but integration with Octave/C++ forces unsafe FFI shims, and FFT prototypes fail to finish; several prototypes compile but some code still doesn’t run.
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