python vs d

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Chris:

> Especially in the scientific community Python is popular 
> because one can protoype very fast, test things etc. However, 
> as the code base grows it becomes more and more obvious that 
> Python is too slow and doesn't scale very well.

Julia seems to be gaining many users, it's a language that is 
growing very fast, it's already usable despite being rather 
young. The number of its major design mistakes seems small (like 
arrays indexing not starting from 0, and few other things).

Bye,
bearophile