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This exact view is why https://futhark-lang.org/ https://futhark-lang.org/ is exciting to me; it's currently designed mainly for GPUs, but a lower-level CPU byt

• teddyh 6y ago
  Designing a high-level language first is a mistake, I think. It risks being too complex without adequate grounding in real hardware. I think this was also APL’s mistake – by being too “mathematical”, so to speak, it’s too hard to wrap one’s head around. I think it must first come from the CPU exposing these concepts, followed by increasingly better compilers taking advantage of them, and as we get more experience about what concepts we like, we can design higher-level languages around these new concepts. Chip design languages like VHDL might some day rise up from being slightly too close to the hardware to fill this role, but I certainly don’t know enough about any of these topics to have a qualified opinion.