On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:14:15 UTC, TJB wrote:
Walter,
I see that you will be discussing "High Performance Code Using
D" at the 2014 DConf. This will be a very welcomed topic for
many of us. I am a Finance Professor. I currently teach and
do research in computational finance. Might I suggest that you
include some finance (say Monte Carlo options pricing)
examples? If you can get the finance industry interested in D
you might see a massive adoption of the language. Many are
desperate for an alternative to C++ in that space.
Heh, right before I read this, I stumbled across this snippet
from Miguel De Icaza's blog from a couple months back, where he
regretted using C++ to build Moonlight, their Silverlight
implementation:
"But this would not be a Saturday blog post without pointing out
that Cairo's C-based API is easier and simpler to use than many
of those C++ libraries out there. The more sophisticated the use
of the C++ language to get some performance benefit, the more
unpleasant the API is to use.
The incredibly powerful Antigrain sports an insanely fast
software renderer and also a quite hostile template-based API.
We got to compare Antigrain and Cairo back when we worked on
Moonlight. Cairo was the clear winner.
We built Moonlight in C++ for all the wrong reasons ("better
performance", "memory usage") and was a decision we came to
regret. Not only were the reasons wrong, it is not clear we got
any performance benefit and it is clear that we did worse with
memory usage.
But that is a story for another time."
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Jan-04.html
