GDL today: Reaching a viable alternative to IDL
Gilles Duvert, Alain Coulais, Mark Schellens
TL;DR
This paper discusses the progress of GDL, a free clone of IDL, demonstrating its potential as a viable open-source alternative for daily use in scientific computing.
Contribution
It presents recent developments in GDL, highlighting its readiness to replace IDL for routine tasks, thus promoting open-source software adoption.
Findings
GDL has achieved significant feature parity with IDL.
GDL is suitable for everyday scientific computing tasks.
The project demonstrates promising progress towards full replacement of IDL.
Abstract
We report at the ADASS XXVII session the progresses made by GDL, the free clone of the proprietary IDL software. We argue that GDL can replace IDL for everyday use.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSemantic Web and Ontologies · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Business Process Modeling and Analysis