On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 19:53 +0000, bearophile wrote: > Russel Winder: > > > Those in the Python side of the game disliked C and C++ co much > > they created abstractions, ending up with NumPy, Cython, > > ShedSkin, > > Unfortunately ShedSkin is now essentially dead. And Julia could > replace Python in some usages, because of its performance.
ShedSkin certainly isn't keeping up with the programme and working with Python 3 so I have never tried it. Julia is a system I keep up with, it is splendid. And there is even now a London Julia user group. User group activity is likely a measure of involvement: Java and JVM technology groups have no problem having meetings with attenders. Go went from 20 → 120 attenders per month in a year. Python has activity. Julia has a new user group. I suspect D has no user group activity because it is a 10 year old language very few people have heard about. It needs a marketing reboot so as to be new and exciting and attract people to attend meetings. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder