Julia vs. D?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 23:19:47 UTC, Mason McGill wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 11:28:21 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Maybe it's time to think about a D interface to Julia. If 
>> Julia catches on within the scientific community, it would be 
>> good to have a foot in the door. Science quickly creates large 
>> code bases, unfortunately, so far it's mostly Python and 
>> Matlab which makes it hard to use the algorithms in real world 
>> applications.
>
> I've actually been working on just that, on and off for a few 
> months now. Such a thing is kind of "anti-Julian", though, 
> since one of Julia's main goals is to reduce or eliminate the 
> need for mixed-language projects.
>
> However, with D, you can compile small shared libraries that 
> can be automatically bound to your users' favorite dynamic 
> runtimes (via compile-time reflection). I'm hoping this will be 
> good for both D and Julia, allowing library developers to reach 
> a broader audience, and library consumers greater flexibility.
>
> I'll post on the D "announce" thread when I have something 
> working, and I'd definitely appreciate tests/bug-reports at 
> that time!

I was also thinking in the direction of enabling D to use 
existing Julia code seamlessly, so you can just call it from D 
(extern(J)), and maybe even efficiently compile it into binaries 
along with D code, as you would with extern(C) calls now.