On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 16:13:31 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
> Fortran has some linear algebra functions in the standard library.  :-)
> Java and many other modern languages are pretty much actively hostile to
> doing numerical computation,
> so including a linear algebra package in the standard library of those
> languages would just highlight how bad they are at it.
> C++ has a tradition of not having a standard library for anything you might
> actually need to get work done, so I wouldn't follow their example.
>
> --bb

Nice point about the Fortran, and also about the C++. :)

I'd have to say I'm convinced - if there's a vote about such module joining Phobos, count me in! :)

But really, when you look at it - the ndslice has made it to the Phobos, now it's probably natural to have some more extensive use of it in the standard library. Linear algebra stuff could be build nicely on top of the ndslice, you agree?

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:47:46 UTC, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote:
> Nice point about the Fortran, and also about the C++. :)
>
> I'd have to say I'm convinced - if there's a vote about such module joining Phobos, count me in! :)
>
> But really, when you look at it - the ndslice has made it to the Phobos, now it's probably natural to have some more extensive use of it in the standard library. Linear algebra stuff could be build nicely on top of the ndslice, you agree?

Perhaps it's a bit late to add to the original conversation, but I believe:
https://github.com/DerelictOrg
would be the ideal place to host C bindings to OpenCV if that was actually the plan. I didn't realise, as somebody suggested, that they were planning to remove their own C bindings for OpenCV which is pretty sad.

And I would also like to see some more scientific libraries make it into D. Though I understand that including it in the standard library can cause issues, it would be nice to at least get some Linear Algebra libraries in experimental or over with the rest of the science libraries.

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:32:25 UTC, Michael wrote:
> And I would also like to see some more scientific libraries make it into D. Though I understand that including it in the standard library can cause issues, it would be nice to at least get some Linear Algebra libraries in experimental or over with the rest of the science libraries.

As I understand it that is part of the goal of mir:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir

Not sure if you were aware, but there is also a group with the aim to promote scientific dlang work:
https://gitter.im/DlangScience/public

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:50:55 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:32:25 UTC, Michael wrote:
>> And I would also like to see some more scientific libraries make it into D. Though I understand that including it in the standard library can cause issues, it would be nice to at least get some Linear Algebra libraries in experimental or over with the rest of the science libraries.
>
> As I understand it that is part of the goal of mir:
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir
>
> Not sure if you were aware, but there is also a group with the aim to promote scientific dlang work:
> https://gitter.im/DlangScience/public

I've seen the mir project and it looks promising. I'm also aware of Dlang science and I hope that it gains some support.

On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 17:01:12 UTC, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> For a while I was looking for a computer vision library in D on the web, but haven't found any. There were few libraries I found, providing some basic image processing functionality, but none that could be remotely compared to opencv or other similar open source computer vision toolkits present for other languages. Surely for a year, even maybe two, this has been stopping me to switch completely to D from C/C++.
>
> [...]

I know it is a little late but I have just started this project https://github.com/aferust/opencvd