# HPAT.jl being discontinued!?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [March 18, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788 "2018-03-18T14:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahulkp220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@rahulkp220](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rahulkp220)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788/1 "2018-03-18T14:44:20Z")

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In an [Issue](https://github.com/IntelLabs/HPAT.jl/issues/25#issuecomment-374003475) raised over GitHub repo of Intel labs,I got to know that [HPAT.jl](https://github.com/IntelLabs/HPAT.jl/) is being discontinued and is being actively developed in another repo by the name [hpat](https://github.com/IntelLabs/hpat) using python.

Given what the README.md page for HPAT.jl claims, it’s almost, in [some cases](https://github.com/IntelLabs/HPAT.jl#monte-carlo-pi-estimation) around 1000 times faster than Apache Spark. As someone who has coded using pyspark, we were expecting a tough competition coming by something developed in Julia.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qa7nfaDacII?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLP8iPy9hna6SQPwZUDtAM59-wPzCPyD_S&start=17

Is there something we can do to help resurrect the project as the developer sites the main reason being `lack of resources`?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788/2 "2018-03-18T16:17:10Z")

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> [@rahulkp220](#):
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> Is there something we can do to help resurrect the project as the developer sites the main reason being lack of resources?

You can be the resource they are lacking.

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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788/3 "2018-03-18T16:42:45Z")

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> [@rahulkp220](#):
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> and is being actively developed in another repo by the name hpat using python.

(Actually it looks like most of the code in the other repo is in C++, with a Python interface.)

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**Author:** ![rahulkp220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@rahulkp220](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rahulkp220)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788/4 "2018-03-18T16:53:04Z")

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@stevengj I agree on that. However, they started with Julia almost 2 years back and abandoned it post Juliacon 2016.

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**Author:** ![tk3369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tk3369/32/2824_2.png) [@tk3369](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tk3369)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpat-jl-being-discontinued/9788/5 "2018-03-18T17:55:33Z")

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> [@stevengj](#):
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> (Actually it looks like most of the code in the other repo is in C++, with a Python interface.)

…which means that it would be easy to wrap in Julia again?