Scientific computing and parallel computing C++23/C++26

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 07:46:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I think the ship has already sailed, given the industry 
> standards of SYSCL and C++ for OpenCL, and their integration 
> into clang (check the CppCon talks on the same) and FPGA 
> generation.

The SYSCL/FPGA presentation was interesting, but he said it 
should be considered a research project at this point?

I am a bit weary of all the solutions that are coming from 
Khronos. It is difficult to say what becomes prevalent across 
many platforms. Both Microsoft and Apple have undermined open 
standards such as OpenGL in their desire to lock in developers to 
their own "monopolistic eco system" …

So, a focused language solution of limited scope might actually 
be better for developers than (big) open standards.

> There was a time to try overthrow C++, that was 10 years ago, 
> LLVM was hardly relevant and GPGPU computing still wasn't 
> mainstream.

Overthrowing C++ isn't possible, but D could focus more on 
desktop application development and provide a framework for it. 
Then you need to have a set of features/modules/libraries in 
place in a way that fits well together. GPU-compute would be one 
of those I think.