On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 18:20:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 17:47:49 UTC, Yura wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you for your replies. I am now really convinced that D
is a decent choice for my project (also I am really happy to
see that the forum is really active and apparently many of you
use D for your scientific projects). I am just looking forward
to writing the code. I had a very quick look at lecture given
at DConf 2015 - good talk, and I believe D has a big promise
in Science. Perhaps the only problem being is the mathematical
library, like numpy.
Until now I usually wrote the prototype algorithms in Python
and then translated the code onto C for speed. It would be
just dream to use only one language. The dominant languages in
science now for production codes are Fortran or C/C++, may be
D could become another option?
With kind regards,
Yury
I think NumPy was written in C(++) and is imported as a Python
module. So if you can get your hands on the original underlying
C(++) library, you can call NumPy directly from D, can't you?
In case you do this, let me know how you fared with it. NumPy
is usually the deadbeat argument when people have to choose
between Python or other languages.
Isn't the useful bit of NumPy more like a set of wrappers around
other C/C++/Fortran libraries? And the whole point of NumPy is
that you can call it easily from python, which doesn't make for a
nice calling convention from D (although you can call from PyD if
you want).
Anyway, I agree that it's a big project, but not an infeasible
one to implement similar functionality in D.
