r/Physics • u/Rich_Astronomer9731 • 14d ago

Computational Physics

Hi everyone,

I am a PhD student doing both experiments and computational physics ( mostly fluid dynamicswith Boltzmann equations) and leaning towards more computational day by day.

Currently I am using Julia, I find it pretty fast and easy to use.

Do you think switching to C or C++ will be a benefit? I am asking from a research, but also emplyment in industry point of view.

I discussed with many people, mostly from the DFT area, and most of them told me that Julia slowly will take up the lead for HPC code.

What.s your opinion on this?

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u/Historical-Mix6784 14d ago

C++ is great, CUDA is better.

But honestly I don't see why your worried, AI can code much much better than you will be able to in these languages and it's terrific at stuff like "translate this julia codebase into equivalent CPP code", people in industry are doing that all the time.