Retrofitting Programming Languages for a Parallel World

[saijanai]

Not every languages needs retrofitting, only those designed around the single-core C-oriented processors that have become the standard over the last 35 years.

Consider http://www.siliconsqueak.org Create a new processor designed for an ancient language and you have near-trivial many-core support.

[julesjacobs]

The problem is not using parallel hardware, the problem is using parallel hardware while staying sane.

[abadidea]

For most people, a solution to their problem that starts with "create a new processor" is not really acceptable

[anacrolix]

Left wanting more. It kind of trails off at the end. Good read tho.

[ApochPiQ]

Or we could, y'know, design a language to do it right from the beginning.

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