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Jan 23, 2026 at 00:09
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Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable. The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.
Designing a Programming Language for the Desert
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.

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