GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNUtrition-2026

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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 81d (2 replies)

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 pts · 81d (1 reply)

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 pts · 81d

Well hey at least it wasn't Assembly!