Scientific computing in D

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 21:05:35 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 20:30:49 UTC, Gerald Jansen wrote:
>> On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 19:31:14 UTC, Márcio Martins 
>> wrote:
>>> I have been running some MCMC simulations in Python ...
>>>
>>> Is anyone doing similar stuff with D? Unfortunately, I 
>>> couldn't find any plotting libraries nor MATLAB-like 
>>> numerical/stats libs in dub.
>>>
>>> This seems like another area where D could easily pick up 
>>> momentum with RDMD and perhaps an integration with Jupyter 
>>> which is becoming very very popular.
>>
>> see http://dlangscience.github.io/
>
> And here is the gitter discussion site:
>
> https://gitter.im/DlangScience/public
>
> I've got this project
>
> https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline2
>
> to embed D inside R on Linux. Unfortunately the documentation 
> isn't good. I'm currently working on going in the other 
> direction, embedding R inside D. There are, of course, many 
> good MCMC options in R that you could call from your D code.

Weird approach. Usually, when one wants to use an interpreted 
language as an host to a compiled language, the strategy is 
precompile the compiled language's code and load it as extensions 
in the interpreted code.