D for project in computational chemistry

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 13:42:15 UTC, Chris wrote:

> Good that you point that out. Most people I know claim that 
> it's easier to develop/prototype in with Matlab. Apart from 
> execution speed and fast prototyping, Matlab is proprietary. 
> This alone is a deal breaker.

I can only imagine it being faster to prototype in Matlab if 
there are additional libraries available. D's just a way better 
language - Matlab was designed as a replacement for FORTRAN 77 - 
and static typing means the compiler catches a lot of bugs that 
you don't want to think about while prototyping.