Hello, I am currently a PhD student at University of Crete (Dept. of Applied Mathematics).
So far, I have been developing my code mainly in Matlab and sometimes in C. However, I would like to get rid of the licenses and use only free software. My first thought was to develop exclusively in C (I love it) but it would be a step backward for my productivity. Then, I considered the Python language as a good alternative but I don't like its syntax and I would prefer to avoid scripting languages. I am a big fan of Gnome 3, so I thought that using of the Vala programming language for my research programming would be a good idea. I looked up in the vala documentation and really I love the features of Vala. Nevertheless, I wonder if I could use Vala for parallel computations using a parallel toolbox like mpich, openmpi or CUDA.This is significant for me because I am going to run my code using the facilities of University. Does someone use Vala for scientific calculations? I already have found out that there is a gsl port to Vala! I hope that there is an easy way to produce parallel code in Vala. Otherwise, I will rather consider the Python as a serious candidate. Thank you, Costas Smaragdakis _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
