On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Trass3r <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Lars Kyllingstad schrieb: >>>> >>>> For less processor-intensive tasks one uses Matlab, Mathematica, etc. >>>> which have a lot of built-in functionality and make for rapid >>>> development, >>>> but programs run at a snail's pace. >>>> >>> So it would probably be cool to also have certain functions for creating >>> and >>> manipulating figures like in Matlab. >> >> Once Qt is ported we could port this: >> http://qwt.sourceforge.net/ >> :-) > > Speaking of which, is it me or there are quite a lot more stars than I'd > anticipated getting aligned for D? I haven't done GUI programming in a > while, but my understanding is that Qt is canine testes when it comes about > solid portable GUI programming, so I see QtD as absolutely huge for D. Then > we have the continuously improved Descent, Sean's awesome core lib, various > language interface libraries, and now up-and-coming support in SlickEdit. > Something is in the air!
Yeh and on top of all that, I heard that some C++ bigwig is working on the D standard library now, and he's even working on a book about D! --bb
