GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

GNUtrition has now been rewritten in plain C code to replace the prior version written in Python 2.

Another couple decades later it'll finally be moved to Rust.

[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I have to ask why on earth they would switch to C. I can only imagine the performance walls they were hitting in such a high computationally bound application, that forced their hand to rewrite the entire code in C of all languages.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Well hey at least it wasn't Assembly!

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