[bachmeier]

It doesn't even need to be an alternative to Python or R, since it's really easy to interoperate with both languages. This is in addition to tools like eBay's tsv-utils.

http://code.dlang.org/packages/pyd

https://embedr.netlify.com/

http://code.dlang.org/packages/autowrap

https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils