On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 16:59:54 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
That's why I'm working on embedding R inside D (almost done). I've suffered for years with all the problems that are making Julia popular. I just felt D was a better choice.
I think the draw towards Julia is long term rather than productivity right now. If scientific programmers interested in interactive dataset exploration gravitate towards Julia then at some point they will have tailored solutions using the GPU...
On the other hand, D for embedded devices is a big project with a small probability of success, at least from what I've read.
Most people probably don't want to write an interactive application entirely in a language like C++, D, Rust or Go, even if it was a supported option with full GUI library support!
But making the engine of the app portable is important. So, being able to compile libraries to llvm-bit code, WebAssembly, ARM, x86 etc is very important.
