They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 02:31:58 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 22:55:37 UTC, lobo wrote:
>> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 20:25:33 UTC, CraigDillabaugh 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 20:09:35 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> You're right about the lack of visualization being a shame. 
>>>> I have been thinking about porting Bokeh bindings to D.  
>>>> There isn't much too it on the server side - all you need to 
>>>> do is build up the object model and translate it to JSON - 
>>>> but I have not time right now to do it all myself.
>>>>
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>>> A comment on the visualization thing. Is this really a big 
>>> issue?
>> [snip]
>>
>> Yes of course, why do you think Pyhton + sciPy/Numpy has such 
>> a foothold in the scientific community. Visualisation is an 
>> important part of data processing pipeline.
>>
>> It's also why Matlab is so useful for those lucky enough to 
>> work for a company that can afford it.
>>
>> bye,
>> lobo
>
> My point wasn't that visualization isn't important, it is that 
> in most scientific computing it is very easy (and sensible) to 
> separate the processing and visualization aspects.  So lack of 
> D visualization tools should not hinder  its value as a data 
> processing tool.
>
> For example, Hadoop is immensely popular for data processing, 
> but it includes no visualization tools. That is a slightly 
> different domain I understand, but there are similarities.
>
> So in short, if there were nice D visualization tools that 
> would certainly be helpful, but I don't think is should be a 
> show stopper.

Yes, I tried to pick my words carefully.  It is not a disaster, 
as a someone seemed to imply, but it would be nice to have 
visualization, particularly for interactive exploration of data.  
One is back to Walter's quote about the two language combination 
being an indicator that something is lacking.