Pandas like features

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2020-10-24 at 11:05 +0000, bioinfornatics via Digitalmars-d wrote:

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> Maybe, anyway since years D search the killer app. Really I 
> thanks thisr area it is perfect for D.
> Data Business analysis is so important in this day in science, 
> economy and other D could be a good choice.

I agree that D could be the replacement for Python for many scientific milieu:
bioinformatics, astronomy, to name but two obvious ones. The issue though is
that the Python language over NumPy and associated communities captured the
moment years ago and many people contributed many extensions to a few
libraries and packages.

Traditionally (as it were) bioinformatics and astronomy have emphasised
exploration over computation, and often offloaded computation to C or C++
realised frameworks. This has reinforced prioritising code comprehension and
evolution over computation speed, thus militating in favour of Python since
the packages were there.

Whilst D could replace Python, the question is will it and the answer is
determined by who would write the code. Sadly history tells us this will lead
to a (very) long (divergent) thread and result in no-one actually doing
anything. I would like to be proved wrong.

The possible upside is that all the major Python packages started as one or
two people creating something that others then joined in with and turned into
the de facto standard. Might this finally happen in the D community?

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Russel.
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