Solving multi-core Python

Re:Solving multi-core Python by Scramblejams on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:34PM (#9865846)

Here's what I want: Something with programmer productivity similar to Python, but type-inferred for predictably good execution speed, with more support for functional programming style, with green threads preemptively executing in parallel and immutability baked deeply into the whole thing. And then a track record of deployment so the ugly GC and type system edge cases are ironed out and libraries are plentiful.

Elixir/Erlang will probably never be fast enough, Go didn't commit to immutability and its functional programming support is minimal, Rust could have all that but it's too low-level...

I guess OCaml is as close as it comes for the moment -- it's got everything I listed except a reasonable parallel execution story, but it looks like that's being worked on at the moment.

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Re:Solving multi-core Python by beagle3 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @03:23PM (#9871201)

I don't think there's anything quite like that, but Nim seems to be a better fit than OCaml.

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Re:Solving multi-core Python by Scramblejams on Saturday July 11, 2015 @06:25PM (#9871797)

Tried that. It's quite a big and complex language, there are lots of rough edges (I had it crashing from a double free within 5 minutes of trying it out), the bus factor is in the basement and although I didn't stick with it long enough to know for sure, there's much more mutability there than made me comfortable during my short sojourn.

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