Using rust for researchers: the good, the bad and the rusty

[dalonsoa]

There are obviously a million posts out there extolling the virtues of Rust, but what I'd like to do differently here is address people writing research software in particular. The general idea would be to look at "when to consider using Rust and why", but I think it's especially a good choice for projects that would otherwise be written in C/C++. I think it would be fun to compare and contrast Rust with modern C++, which has some of the same benefits. Even if we don't convince people to move to Rust, we could still encourage best practices for C++ (e.g. using smart pointers, dependency management with vcpkg etc.).

-- Alex