Blocking points for further D adoption

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 13:18:02 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:

> which is dynamic languages. PyD is only barely alive, and 
> nobody seems to be interested to take it to the next level—of 
> making it easy to distribute the created packages.

D integrates quite easily with R. I speak from experience, 
regularly using the two together. You can embed R inside your D 
program and pass data trivially between them. The technical side 
is not an issue. Distribution is not an issue - it is the same as 
any D program calling into a C library. All the other stuff 
(support for three OSes, documentation, etc.) takes a lot of time 
and is no fun.

> Research people would love this, but only if it's a 
> production-ready solution that needs no extra time investment.

Yep. And if nobody wants to do the work, it will never happen. I 
originally did it as a fun way to pass the time while waiting for 
my son at his many events. I may have been the only one in the 
world with that particular set of circumstances though. You'll 
probably be waiting a long time for that production-ready 
solution that needs no extra time investment.