On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 16:39 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Hi there. > > Brief introduction, and a beginner's question. > > I just started playing with D a couple of weeks ago. I have been > programming in C on and off since the late 80s, but I do finance > for a living and my programming skills grew rusty. I have a bit > more time now to catch up with developments, and D looks a very > intriguing robust alternative to C when python won't cut the > mustard.
All the cool folk doing data analysis and visualization using Python no longer bother with hand written C (*) for when pure Python won't cut the mustard. If Numba can't do the job, then Cython gets used. I have all my computational pure Python source codes running as fast as C these days thanks to Numba. (And judicious profiling.) I would say that Python folk will now only be looking to C, C++, Fortran, D, for pre-written libraries in those language. Given all the codes are written in C, C++ or Fortran with none in D… On the other hand PyD does work for me, but I only pass primitive types, not C structs. (*) Nor C++, nor D. -- 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
