Yes, honeybee should make it a lot easier to work with Radiance, especially if you want to incorporate geometric procedures in your research.
I’m not sure what you mean that you are using Unix. My understanding is that Unix just describes a family of OS, that most popularly encompasses Windows, and Linux.
At any rate, I believe this is the library you want: https://github.com/ladybug-tools/honeybee. Honeybee+ is basically a wrapper for Radiance, and should be cross platform.
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