I thought this new language looked cool: GitHub - HigherOrderCO/Bend: A massively parallel, high-level programming language . It’s still in the research stages but presents some interesting ideas. It compiles a Python-like language directly into GPU kernels – more than just array broadcasting – by e…

I believe there’s a circular dependency issue that hampers the progress of Julia. Without a guarantee of continuity, an entire branch of the package ecosystem might become obsolete. Perhaps if there were a rule in place, ensuring that any package, regardless of its version, could be installed and …

Chris has been talking about a lot of very interesting prior art here, but I’d like to point out that Bend is following a well-known tradition of confusing scalability for performance. The paper above coined it as COST - Configuration Over a Single Thread, or how many cores does your system need to…

[image] miguelraz: Frankly, I would be a somewhat more optimistic about the potential research direction of Bend if the lead dev didn’t have Reaching AGI to cure all diseases and suffering is all that matters as part of their twitter bio or if they weren’t involved with all the super shady c…

[image] ajsagit: Without a guarantee of continuity, an entire branch of the package ecosystem might become obsolete. Perhaps if there were a rule in place, ensuring that any package, regardless of its version, could be installed and function smoothly, this problem could be mitigated. Two thi…

[image] ChrisRackauckas: Taka (who was a member of the MIT Julia Lab) effectively vanished one day and I never heard from him again I’ve always wondered about this, thanks for explaining. I couldn’t count how many times I’ve checked his github activity to see if he had any new commits… Hope h…

Good thread but it’s worth pointing out that while Bend takes full advantage of its Haskell-like immutable variables, it’s seen as a limitation not a feature (GUIDE.md): Which is immutable. If that sounds annoying, that’s because it is . Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. We are aware of that, a…

Is the proposed solution viable? Considering different package versions as distinct entities within the same package class, mandating that developers precisely define dependencies down to specific versions. Thus, if a package, possibly the foundational one, discontinues development, it would not im…

I don’t understand the comment. It needs stuff in Julia base itself.

How close is the Julia ecosystem to achieving what Bend can do?

You can use high-level Julia syntax in CUDA.jl within a CUDA kernel but as of yet there is no library readily available to write something like the recursive tree-sort example (using the same recursive algorithm and automatically generating CUDA kernels along all axes of parallelism). Though you cou…

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