Please think about the huge math and science community. Most of
them I came across like D for its speed and efficiency. But D can
never replace Matlab/Octave/Ipython/Scipy because ....
.. of the messy syntax compared to almost math like syntax above
languages offer.
For example, if I want to quickly want to plot something, in
Octave I would do:
x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 1000);
y = sin(x);
plot(x, y)
now, how to do that in D (assuming proper libs are already
imported):
auto x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 1000);
auto y = sin(x);
plot(x, y)
the "auto" keyword seems to be a distraction. Compare it with the
following code:
x := linspace(0, 2*pi, 1000);
y := sin(x);
plot(x, y)
For a code of several lines or 100s of lines auto becomes too
much of a distraction. Especially when I want to quickly write a
code to analyze some data I want the code to look like math as
much as possible and not get distracted by too many language
constructs.
You can say that D was never designed for that purpose, well, too
bad then. D has so much potential to replace python/octave/matlab
for math/scientific computing. Please give this a thought before
dismissing the idea.
