WhoIzDisIz comments on GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 5 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Well hey at least it wasn't Assembly!

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