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RunMat
Company blog · runmat.org/blogprogrammingscience
RunMat is the company blog at runmat.org, writing about programming and science. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Show HN: RunMat – a V8 inspired Rust runtime for the landlocked Matlab language”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link RunMat, an open-source fast MATLAB runtime, in threads on MATLAB code and Octave. The comments are mostly promotional and ask how it compares with Octave.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
RunMat is a math and physics calculation engine designed to be backwards-compatible with MATLAB syntax. It lets you model, simulate, and analyze complex systems with automatic GPU acceleration.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: RunMat – a V8 inspired Rust runtime for the landlocked Matlab language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-21
- Runmat2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12
What Hacker News says?
Piggybacking on this comment to say, I bet a lot of people's first question will be, why aren't you contributing to Octave instead of starting a new project? After reading this declaration of the RunMat vision, the first thing I did was ctrl-f Octave to make sure I hadn't missed it. Honest question, Octave is an old project that never gained as much traction as Julia or NumPy, so I'm sure it has problems, and I woul…
Comment linking /blog/matlab-alternatives
on “In Defense of Matlab Code”Submitted In Defense of Matlab Code as a story · 143 points
HN discussionThanks for digging in ;) We just released RunMat in August as an open-source, fast MATLAB runtime. The goal is to make it the fastest way to run math, period. Coming from Octave, you'll notice significant speedup advantages, you can see some of our benchmarks with it here https://runmat.org/blog/introducing-runmat Last month, we put out 250+ built-in functions and Accelerate, which fuses operations and routes betwee…
Comment linking /blog/introducing-runmat
on “In Defense of Matlab Code”Submitted Show HN: RunMat – a V8 inspired Rust runtime for the landlocked Matlab language as a story · 15 points
HN discussionShameless plug for RunMat (we wrote this blog article, also an open source alternative for MATLAB): https://runmat.org
Comment linking /
on “In Defense of Matlab Code”Submitted Choosing Rust for LLM-generated code as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runmat as a story · 3 points
HN discussion