Hi SymPy community,

*Who am I?*

I'm Sam Brockie and I have been hired as a postdoctoral researcher in Jason 
Moore's lab at TU Delft to work on SymPy's code generation (see here: 
https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/sympy/c/YC4PHG5etaA/m/IXRCdcwHBwAJ) as part 
of the CZI grant (see here: 
https://groups.google.com/g/sympy/c/vYsavewGj1w/m/CQKTSznPAgAJ).

*What is code generation?*

For those not familiar with what code generation is, here's a quick 
explanation:

Oftentimes SymPy users will need to evaluate their symbolic expressions 
using numeric values. In simple cases, SymPy's `subs` and `evalf` methods 
can be used to substitute numeric values into symbolic expressions. 
However, this approach is slow. If your expressions are very large, or the 
numeric evaluations need to be done many times, then a different approach 
is required. Code generation is the process of automatically converting 
symbolic expressions into dedicated computer code for their numeric 
evaluation. SymPy offers a range of code generation tools supporting the 
simple creating of numeric Python functions equivalent to a symbolic 
expression (`lambdify`) and spanning to the creating, compiling, wrapping, 
and/or importing of efficient numeric C/Fortran/<other language> callables. 
Code generation can also be used to generate other code, such as LaTeX 
representations of SymPy objects.

More info can be found in the docs 
here: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/reference/public/codegeneration/index.html, 
https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/numeric-computation.html

*The survey*

In order to get a better idea of the community's needs related to SymPy's 
code generation, we are running a short survey. Please take a moment to 
fill it out. It should only take five minutes. Even if you are new to 
SymPy, or haven't used SymPy's code generation much, we'd still really 
appreciate hearing from you.

The survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/F5Ek6yQkH5fXPNYK6

*What happens next?*

The survey will remain open for the next two weeks, after which time I'll 
compile and share the results. These will then be used to inform which 
aspects of SymPy's code generation will be worked on.

Sam

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