On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 15:32:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I spend my days working with graduate students in economics
departments. They have to program for their research, but most
of them have never taken a programming class. I use RStudio
server. Students need only a browser to do fairly complicated
analyses. Once you eliminate the startup costs, it's amazing
how easy it is for them to learn.
Do we have such a thing with D? Unfortunately we are moving in
the wrong direction. New users are told to write configuration
files for Hello World.
A Jupyter kernel would go a long way to students being able to
easily play around with it in a browser. There's already dabble
(D REPL) that one could make use of. I was surprised at the
breadth of the list of kernels available these days.
