A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

Just saw this message. Thanks for trying it out.

I will have to look at what Rcpp does on Windows. I've never used 
D on Windows either so will have to figure that out as well.


On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 02:38:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 18:48:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 15:13:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>
>> You might be able to download the zip here:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline/downloads
>>
>> and then install from a USB disk using install_local.
>
> I ended up trying this on my home computer because it makes 
> life much easier.
>
> The Debian file I was trying to get for libgretl-dev was a 
> package rather than the source, I think, and I couldn't find 
> the source or any sort of Windows version. Anyway commands like
>> install_librtod2(gretl="usr/lib/libgretl-1.0.so", 
>> libr="usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so")
> don't make much sense as .so is only for linux. I tried it 
> anyway and got an error about the cd command not being found 
> (wasn't the error I expected, but oh well).
>
> I seem to be able to import the dmdinline library just fine. 
> When I run
> compileD("foo", txt)
> I get
>
> Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>   cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>   cannot open file 'C:/Users/John/Documents/.rtod2/config.R': 
> No such file or directory
>
> I don't know where the config.R file is located.

config.R will be created by install_librtod2, but it is unlikely 
to work on Windows, because I