On Friday, 9 September 2016 at 13:32:16 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Why write algorithms in C or C++ when you can do it in Chapel?
For the moment, the objective answers to that question seem: you need GPGPU (especially CUDA, which is vastly more convenient to use from C++ than from anything else), you're attached to a C++ codebase/libraries (calling C code is trivial, C++ far from it generally) or you need the low level flexibility afforded by C/C++. Personally, I probably won't consider Chapel for serious projects until at least the first point is solved.
Of course, there's also a host of subjective reasons -- attachment to more familiar languages, difficulty of selling new languages to coworkers, preference for larger communities, etc. All of those take time to overcome.
