Hi, apologies for what may be a fairly obvious question to some.
## The background:
I have been tasked with building software to process data output
by scientific instruments for non-experts - basically with GUI,
menus, easy config files (JSON or similar) - and the ability to
do some serious number crunching.
My background is python/octave and would be happy building it in
python (or god forbid, even octave), but it would end up clunky
and slow once ported to a standalone executable. Hence why I'm
looking at other languages. D caught my eye.
## The problem:
The sticking point is unless I commit the rest of my life to
maintaining this software, I can't write it all in D. The
algorithms change/are improved yearly; the output format from the
instrument changes once in a while and therefore these need to be
easily scripted/modified by other (non-programming) scientists
and the community that only really know python and octave.
Essentially I'd like a D front end, and a D back-end that does
most of the memory and data management but calls and interprets
.py, .m and/or .jl scripts (python, matlab, julia) to know how to
treat the data. This leaves the py/m/jl scripts visible to be
edited by the end user.
## The question:
Can it be done?
Does this entirely defeat the point of using D and I should just
code it in python because of the added overheads?
Thanks for your help!
B
