On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 13:25:22 UTC, maarten van damme
wrote:
I'm not a programmer myself and used D for a project in
computational
electromagnetics. While I had to implement numerical
integration and a bit
of linear algebra which was annoying (would be really useful in
phobos), it
was a joy to work with and the resulting program was incredibly
fast.
Most others used matlab and the difference in speed was more
than a factor
100. Not only that, prototyping went quicker in D.
Good that you point that out. Most people I know claim that it's
easier to develop/prototype in with Matlab. Apart from execution
speed and fast prototyping, Matlab is proprietary. This alone is
a deal breaker.
I've also written a simulation of the dual slit experiment
which I'll drop somewhere on github once the code is
presentable.
So, if you don't mind having to implement a few algorithms that
are already available in numpy, D will be pleasant and fast.
