tl;dr futhark is a DSL for transpiling non-graphics parallel submodules for other programs. Which is to say, if one were to write a N-queens futhark program, it

tl;dr futhark is a DSL for transpiling non-graphics parallel submodules for other programs. Which is to say, if one were to write a N-queens futhark program, it could create C, C#, or Python modules for use in a larger program that would leverage OpenCL for parallelizing the chess moves. This blog post declares some culture boundaries. Namely, the team intends to keep the dsl targeted at this domain, rather than expanding to general computation in some far future. This enables them to focus on common target language constructs and keep their documentation efforts toward similar experts. They acknowledge that this demands more of their users, for <example all> external imports must be in the same folder when compiled, but allows for simplicity and clarity all around. Hence, the author uses the analogy of a desert creature that survives in an environment of constrained resources.