D, Python, and Chapel

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:34:05 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 10:18:11 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Chapel 1.11 just got release and they are making a big play on 
>> the
>> integration of Chapel with Python. This could be huge and 
>> potentially
>> disrupt the complacency of the NumPy based folk.
>>
>> Chapel is a rather pleasant PGAS language that makes 
>> parallelism and
>> clustering quite nice. Certainly if the choice is Python+C++ vs
>> Python+Chapel, this is now a "no contest".
>>
>> This may put a kibosh on the whole Python+D thing.
>
> I've had a look at Chapel and I don't get what the big deal is. 
> There's some nice syntax and good thinking about parallelism in 
> there*, but I don't see what's exciting after that... Maybe D 
> has spoiled me for seeing power in a language.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is I can see that they've put a lot of 
> thought in to good abstractions for parallelism in HPC, we 
> should steal a bunch of it because D is eminently capable of 
> supporting similar abstractions, while being a much more 
> rounded language in other regards.



The big deal is that is being developed in open collaboration 
with most companies and research labs that matter in HPC.