Owen Densmore wrote: > Just a poll of sorts: > > 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? > 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? > I'd like to see an interactive functional language like Haskell improved to quickly compile and distribute code across a set of compute nodes, and to at the same time support either homogeneous or heterogeneous node architectures while minimizing the cost of using either to the best extent possible. I'd like to be able to checkpoint very large computations with minimal overhead and be confident about the integrity of live jobs migrated between machines as well as jobs that were restarted from hibernation. I'd like maps over sets, tree searches, etc. to all parallelize automatically and adaptively depending on the compute fabric provided. Basically, I'd like features of Chapel or X10 reworked into a purely functional type of language and I'd like it to WORK and not just be an academic exercise. I'd like a language that could support use cases like ABM or Genetic Programming such that evolution of agents and objects was completely natural and very efficient.
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