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:boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-09-26 · latest 2025-07-10

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  1. Those are two different projects. This is the Futhark lang page https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark and it's mainly Haskell.
    comment by TheWiggles · 2025-07-10 · in Futhark – Automatic C imports in Nim
  2. …no on-going work to support Metal apart from the work done by Miles. There's an old issue about it: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/issues/853#issuecomment-5...
    comment by Munksgaard · 2023-06-19 · in GPU Programming: When, Why and How?
  3. …as it is possible to access WebGPU from WebAssembly it should be relatively straightforward. [0]: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/issues/1403
    comment by Munksgaard · 2023-06-19 · in GPU Programming: When, Why and How?
  4. …awesome) whole-program optimizing compiler MLton to add support for nested, fork-join parallelism. https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark https://github.com/MPLLang/mpl
    comment by jstrieb · 2023-05-27 · in Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf]
  5. no native Windows support: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/issues/1761
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-11-13 · in Array short-circuiting
  6. …overstate the importance of using a programming language targeting GPUs directly like Futhark ( https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark ). In this case, it is a functional, declarative language where you can focus on the why, not the how. Just…
    comment by futharkshill · 2021-12-06 · in Generic GPU Kernels
  7. …fine. I was more interested in whether string sorting has some particularly clever algorithms. [0]: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/blob/master/futlib/radix_... [1]: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/blob/master/futlib/merge_...
    comment by Athas · 2017-09-26 · in Calling Futhark from C and Haskell