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I guess my number one piece of advice is to estimate time accordingly. Most things can be solved using pre-existing solutions with a bit of work, if you’re patient and you can afford to put in the time to do it.
Secondary to that:
- Learn to use FFI very well try hard to find libraries written in C.
- Familiarize yourself with the structure of LAPACK and what it offers.
- Learn to use a profiler and debugger (if using Lisp: SB-SPROF, TIME, SLIME, and SLDB).
- (if using Lisp) Contribute useful things back to existing libraries, like MAGICL [0].
Maybe it’s not the best analogy, but scientific programming in Lisp is currently like woodworking (compared to building IKEA with Python).
[0] https://github.com/rigetti/magicl