Thanks from a python programmer

[Imperatorn]

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 03:06:40 UTC, James Blachly wrote:
> On 3/4/21 4:57 AM, Chris Piker wrote:
> ...
>> code.  Others on these forums have mentioned that a good place 
>> to expand D's user base is the current crop of python 
>> programmers.  At least for folks like me who also maintain C 
>> libraries for performance, that sounds like a great focus area.
> ...
>> Take care and I hope you keep up the good work, especially in 
>> the area of Linux IDE development.
>> 
>
> Chris, thanks for the note. We found the same: Our 
> computational biology group are all python alumni, and the 
> three of us on the software side have all switched to D. The 
> transition from python was pretty seamless, cognitively, and I 
> would say our overall productivity has gone UP.
>
> Still have to use pandas for some dataframe type work, but 
> otherwise, all code is written in D.

Yeah, if more people just knew about D.

Me and another user converted some python code and got execution 
time down from hours (stopped the execution after x hours) to 
under 1 minute (I think it was about 20 seconds on my system 
iirc).

It was a very pleasing experience.