What kinds of Software do you create in D. (page 3)

October 31, 2021

Re: What kinds of Software do you create in D.

Posted by harakim
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On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 19:55:49 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

I'm curious: Is there a poll somewhere that asks what kind of software projects people write in D? If not, what does everyone write using the D Language?

I use it for work as a way to call D functions from R and vice versa [project page]. That's not the only library I have for numerical computing, but it's the only one I've publicized. As with everyone, I don't have enough time to turn them into public projects.

I'm working on a compiler for a subset of R. When finished, it will allow anyone to compile bottlenecks in R code, requiring only type information and not requiring any knowledge of D. Since not all R code can be made fast or needs to run blazing fast, it will only be the subset of R for which it makes sense.

I have numerous other projects. For instance, my tiddlyd app provides a very simple way to get a TiddlyWiki instance up and running. I've written utilities for Obsidian that convert my files to PDF, html, and other formats, convert org-mode outlines to Obsidian files, convert a directory of markdown files to a TiddlyWiki app, and many other things.

Oddly enough, I was specifically wondering if anyone used it for data analytics last night.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I am trying to understand where the D community is at and what people are doing with it. I want to have my own personal vision of D and surrounding tools. It might give me motivation to build specific tools when I run into problems because they would help other people instead of just slogging through it.

On 10/29/21 9:48 PM, harakim wrote: > I'm curious: Is there a poll somewhere that asks what kind of software projects people write in D? If not, what does everyone write using the D Language? High performance bioinformatics (genomics) https://github.com/blachlylab/dhtslib/

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 18:57:30 UTC, thedeemon wrote:

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

I'm curious: Is there a poll somewhere that asks what kind of software projects people write in D? If not, what does everyone write using the D Language?

I wrote this video processing GUI app in D using DlangUI:
http://www.infognition.com/VideoEnhancer/

And a photo processing app I still use regularly:
http://www.infognition.com/blogsort/

And a disk space visualizer:
http://www.infognition.com/undup/

The last two were created in D using DFL. Made for Windows but work well in Wine.

really cool stuff written in D. You even used DlangUI. While developing did you have any issues like outdated packages, lack of tools that are available only for others languages etc

I guess I won't break any secrets if I say quite a few people work for Symmetry now (me included) and one of our biggest projects is an interpreter of an in-house programming language (it was mentioned in some DConf'19 talks).

That's pretty nice. What do you think are the advantages of using D over others language to develop a interpreter? are there anything like "killer feature" that made you use D instead of something else?

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