jfd: > Any thoughts on parallel programming. I was looking at something about Chapel > and X10 languages etc. for parallelism, and it looks interesting. I know that > it is still an area of active research, and it is not yet (far from?) done, > but anyone have thoughts on this as future direction? Thank you.
In past I have shown here two large posts about Chapel, that's a language contains several good ideas worth stealing, but my posts were mostly ignored. Chapel is designed for heavy numerical computing on multi-cores or multi-CPUs, it has good ideas of CPU-localization of the work, while D isn't much serious about that kind of parallelism (yet). So far D has instead embraced message-passing, that's fit for other purposes. Bye, bearophile
