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Re:Weep for Graphics Programming by marmaduke on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:03AM (#11620735)
Furthark looks really nice, but what does the future look like for it?

(I'm currently working on a Python hpc codebase with pyopencl and would be interested in reducing some of the manual labor required for cpu-gpu coordination)

Re:Weep for Graphics Programming by Athas on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:34AM (#11621031)
Well, I still have a year left on my PhD, and I hope (with some reason) to get funding to continue after that. But I must emphasize that the language is still a little young and raw.
Re:Weep for Graphics Programming by marmaduke on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:53AM (#11621195)
I just read the paper and it looks better than most of the alternatives for GPU programming.