alt Hacker NewsAre academics who are not working in computer science interested in learning statically typed programming languages?
In the past, the usual answer to people who need a programming language but did not want to learn programming was to give them a domain specific language that focused on solving the specific problem they wanted to solve.
Well, many times in my field of mechanical engineering, they have to, because CFD and FEA are very performance sensitive. The professors I had were still writing FORTRAN and C++ before, but maybe they've switched to Rust now.