[Radiance-general] Research tools: who what which how?

[Germán Molina Larrain]

I started using Ruby because the SketchUp API is in that language, and I
think it is a great language with thousands of freely available modules,
tutorials, documentation, etc. It also allows multithreading, which is
awesome.

Some people say it is slow, but since I usually mix Ruby with Radiance, the
slowest parts are always due to the ray-tracing process (increasing
performance on the script will reduce the run time very little).


I understand a lot of people uses Python, though... I have not been able to
get used to that language.

Best,

2016-04-12 22:35 GMT-03:00 Chris Jones <cj at enersave.ca>:

> I would think that ruby would be a good candidate due to its close tie to
> OpenStudio and measure writing.
>
>
> At 08:37 PM 12/04/2016, you wrote:
>
> We recently had an inconclusive discussion of computer languages over
> on radiance-dev. At the end of it, I was left wondering what languages
> people are using in their research, engineering, and design practices.
>
> My impression is that Python has become something of a standard in the
> research community, with tools like SciPy, NumPy, and SAGE widely
> used, though Perl has a library comparable to NumPy in PDL, and there
> is a SciRuby also, of course, LISP.
>
> On the statistical side there is R and Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
>
> Then there is MATLAB, Mathematica, MAPLE, and even Maxima is still around.
>
> I suppose we might also have some Visual Basic and C# users around
>
> So who is using what? What do people like?
>
> Randolph
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