On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 14:41:47 UTC, J-S Caux wrote:
Is this a case for a bug report? Seems pretty bizarre to do
that, like an oversight/neglect.
Yes if there's not one there for it already.
OK thanks. I looked at libmir, and saw many good things there.
I was wondering: is it still actively developed/maintained? How
will it fit with the "core" D in the future? [I don't want to
build dependencies to libraries which aren't there to stay in
the long run, I want code which can survive for decades]. It
would seem to me that some of the things included in there
should be part of D core/std anyway.
Yes, it is sponsored by https://github.com/kaleidicassociates it
will be around for a long time.
It is developed separately because the dev/release cycles don't
easily align with the core/ stdlib developers.
https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/blob/master/source/mir/ndslice/slice.d#L594
is the de facto matrix structure for D.
Going further, I'm really wondering what the plan is as far as
Complex is concerned. Right now it just feels neglected
(half-done/aborted transition from creal etc to Complex, lots
of missing basic functions etc), and is one major blocking
point as far as adoption (among scientists) is concerned. Julia
is really taking off with many of my colleagues, mostly because
due respect was given to maths. I'd certainly choose Julia if
it wasn't for the fact that I can't get my exploratory/testing
codes to run faster than about 1/10th of my C++ stuff. It seems
D could have such an appeal in the realm of science, but these
little things are really blocking adoption (including for
myself).
Indeed, I'll see what I can do about it.
[related questions:
Did you press send too soon?
No, the related questions were linked in my previous post (just
copied & pasted it further above, but didn't delete these last
couple of words properly).
Thanks a lot Nicholas!
