There are actually some very interesting efforts around building languages that compile to PTX ("Parallel Thread Execution"). NVIDIA treated it as a trade secr

There are actually some very interesting efforts around building languages that compile to PTX ("Parallel Thread Execution"). NVIDIA treated it as a trade secret in the beginning and so only now is that really beginning to take off. The introduction of C++ support with Fermi took a little bit of the pressure off, but I bet we'll see some new parallel-oriented languages in the next few years.