D for project in computational chemistry

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 13:58:02 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.

I think it's a myth that Matlab is better for prototyping. A lot 
of people don't want to learn D (or any other language) and say 
that prototyping in Matlab is faster (which it is, of course, if 
you don't know D at all).

Have you ever seen any of those quickly written Matlab programs? 
Oh deary me!