On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 13:58:02 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 13:42:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
Good that you point that out. Most people I know claim that
it's easier to develop/prototype in with Matlab. Apart from
execution speed and fast prototyping, Matlab is proprietary.
This alone is a deal breaker.
I can only imagine it being faster to prototype in Matlab if
there are additional libraries available. D's just a way better
language - Matlab was designed as a replacement for FORTRAN 77
- and static typing means the compiler catches a lot of bugs
that you don't want to think about while prototyping.
I think it's a myth that Matlab is better for prototyping. A lot
of people don't want to learn D (or any other language) and say
that prototyping in Matlab is faster (which it is, of course, if
you don't know D at all).
Have you ever seen any of those quickly written Matlab programs?
Oh deary me!
