D for project in computational chemistry

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 14:25:21 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 16:25:18 UTC, Yura wrote:
>> Dear D coders/developers,
>>
>> I am just thinking on one project in computational chemistry, 
>> and it is sort of difficult for me to pick up the right 
>> language this project to be written. The project is going to 
>> deal with the generation of the molecular structures and will 
>> resemble to some extent some bio-informatic stuff. Personally 
>> I code in two languages - Python, and a little bit in C (just 
>> started to learn this language).
>>
>> [...]
>
> Did you try PyPy implementation of python? It's claimed to be 
> faster than CPython.
> If it's still not enough for you, then try D for sure. Write 
> sample program that do calculations on real data, use gdc or 
> ldc to get the optimized code and see if you're happy with 
> results.

Last time I checked there's lots of stuff that you can't use with 
pypy.