Scientific computing with D

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Trass3r <mrmocool at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lars Kyllingstad schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> For less processor-intensive tasks one uses Matlab, Mathematica, etc.
>>>> which have a lot of built-in functionality and make for rapid
>>>> development,
>>>> but programs run at a snail's pace.
>>>>
>>> So it would probably be cool to also have certain functions for creating
>>> and
>>> manipulating figures like in Matlab.
>>
>> Once Qt is ported we could port this:
>> http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
>> :-)
>
> Speaking of which, is it me or there are quite a lot more stars than I'd
> anticipated getting aligned for D? I haven't done GUI programming in a
> while, but my understanding is that Qt is canine testes when it comes about
> solid portable GUI programming, so I see QtD as absolutely huge for D. Then
> we have the continuously improved Descent, Sean's awesome core lib, various
> language interface libraries, and now up-and-coming support in SlickEdit.
> Something is in the air!

Yeh and on top of all that, I heard that some C++ bigwig is working on
the D standard library now, and he's even working on a book about D!

--bb