Comment by pjmlp

1 year ago

Some folks in the graphics programming community are allergic to these kind of modern ideas.

They are now putting up with JITs in GPGPUs, thanks to the market pressure from folks using languages like Julia and Python, that rather keep using those languages than having to rewrite their algorithms in C or C++.

These are communities that even adopting C over Assembly, and C++ over C, has been an uphill battle, let alone something like a JIT, that is like calling for the pitchforks and torches.

By the way, one of the key languages used in the Connection Machine mentioned on the article was StarLisp.