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adev_ 28 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Mojo 1.0 Beta

> I love when dialects for C and C++ count as being proper C and C++, are even argued as being more relevant than ISO standards by themselves

I did not argue about CUDA being proper C++ :)

I honestly believe that the best days of C++ as an accelerator language are behind.

That is the main problem currently: We do miss a modern language for system programming that play well with accelerators. C++ is not (really) one of them (Hello aliasing).

I do not know if Mojo will succeed there, but I wish them good luck.

pjmlp 28 days ago [–]

I would argue Chapel or Futhark could be such languages, but they aren't cool.

vovavili 22 days ago | | [–]

I just checked out Chapel because of this comment and it is very high up there among the coolest things I've seen this whole entire year.

adev_ 28 days ago | | [–]

Chapel maybe, but it is too low level to attract a large public outside of the HPC community.

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