Scientific computing in D

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 19:31:14 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote:
> I have been running some MCMC simulations in Python and it's 
> hard to cope with how unbelievably slow it is.
> Takes me almost a minute to run a few hundred thousand samples 
> on my laptop whereas I can run the same simulation with a 
> million samples in under 100ms, on my phone with JavaScript on 
> a browser.
>
> Then, you spend a minute waiting for the simulation to finish, 
> to find out you had an error in your report code that would 
> have been easily caught with static typing. So annoying...
>
> Is anyone doing similar stuff with D? Unfortunately, I couldn't 
> find any plotting libraries nor MATLAB-like numerical/stats 
> libs in dub.
>
> This seems like another area where D could easily pick up 
> momentum with RDMD and perhaps an integration with Jupyter 
> which is becoming very very popular.

To give D a try in this field is definitely a good idea. It will 
pay in the long run, I believe. Where D lacks libraries and the 
like, there's always the option to interface to C (and C++ to a 
certain extent).