And in the disruptive technologies section…

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 3 03:01:32 PDT 2014


The numba package (and llvmpy below it) is rapidly getting to production
use stage, this means all those people using Python for data analysis
(and there are a lot of them) will no longer be searching for Cython/C/C
++/D to speed up their codes, they'll just @autojit their Python code to
generate LLVM based native code for the performance critical sections.

This will mean this arena of programming will only use C/C++/Fortran for
ready made libraries and not for anything new. I suspect this will make
PyD and similar more or less redundant.

On the up side, it is further emphasizing that LLVM is the short- and
medium-term future of native code generation and it is good that there
is LDC, and that it is (almost) up to date with D versions.
-- 
Russel.
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