> I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it to keep things going forward. there has

> I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it to keep things going forward. there has and it's called labview, although by hardware you may have meant processors. labview has many quirks, but it surprisingly gets many things right, even in futuristic ways. when i move back to text-based languages it's always a jolt primarily due to the serial nature of them, even those that support asynchronous computation. it's really hard to recalibrate to having to assign things to temporary variables and the like. and the lower dimensions of a text file compared to a higher dimensional canvas is something that sticks out as a limiting factor in supporting parallel by default. > I find the apparent stagnation extremely depressing. agreed.