On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 23:52:17 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Francesco Cattoglio:
My _dream_ for 2014 is having a chance to prove that D +
ZeroMQ can earn a place in the scientific computing world (I
got so much tired of C/C++ and MPI), but I will have to fight
people that still think that there's nothing a good FORTRAN77
code can't compute.
Now there's Julia, a nice language. I don't like its arrays
being 1-based, and its lack of """visible strong typing"""
(unlike Ada I sometimes discuss around here), but its
scientific usage will grow.
Bye,
bearophile
Honestly, to my eyes, Julia really looks like a "better Matlab",
with a heckload of stuff packed in his standard library.
I have not yet experimented with it but I don't like the premises
that much.
In short: I think D language can do as much as Julia can do, with
pretty much same bang for the buck.
