On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 22:16:09 UTC, Peter Jacobs wrote:
Eilmer is a simulation code for studying high-speed
compressible flows. Early versions were written in C and then
C++. Version 4 is a complete rewrite in D, with Lua for
configuration and run-time scripting. Code and documentation
may be found at http://cfcfd.mechmining.uq.edu.au/eilmer/
This note is principally to say thank you to all of the people
who have made the D programming language and its ecosystem.
Being mechanical engineers, we are occasional but serious
programmers. For a number of years, we struggled with C++ and
a code base of growing complexity. In 2014, we made a serious
commitment to reworking the entire code into D. In mid-2017,
the new code was complete enough for general use and it is
currently being used in a fourth-year course on computational
fluid dynamics. The D programming language has enhanced our
programming experience and, for that, we are grateful to the
many people who have built the foundation upon which we build
our flow simulation code.
Cheers,
Peter Jacobs and Rowan Gollan
Congtatulations on a job well done. Your motivation for use of
the D Programming Language is the same as ours. I found your
paper describing the rewrite [1] very interesting, I think it
deserves a more prominent mention here and on the usual news
sites.
Bastiaan
[1]
http://cfcfd.mechmining.uq.edu.au/eilmer/pdfs/T0316-eilmer-dlang-v2.pdf
