D is our last hope

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 15:02:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 21:21:46 UTC, Bradley Chatha 
> wrote:
>
>> Agreed - with the likes of Go, C#, Python, etc you have a 
>> wealth of libraries for things like Databases+ORMs, high 
>> performing (excluding Python) and well documented frameworks 
>> for things like web APIs or even server side rendering, and 
>> also easy just-works SDKs to access modern application 
>> development platforms (AWS; GCP, Azure if you're unfortunate 
>> enough), and so on.
>>
>> When you don't have an easy to access, plug-and-play solution 
>> to access these external resources, for developers to tinker 
>> around with and prototype ideas with, then effectively a ton 
>> of more casual developers will never really touch D.
>
> I suppose this is why my experience with D has been much better 
> than reported by others. When I started, I was able to call 
> into R for anything I needed, with no loss of efficiency. Need 
> a database? It's there. Need a machine learning library like 
> TensorFlow? It's there. Need parallel random number generation? 
> It's there.

Just for the heck of it, I checked how hard it would be for me to 
access AWS services. I found this package: 
https://www.paws-r-sdk.com/ "Paws provides access to the full 
suite of AWS services from within R."