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Comment by pjmlp

1 day ago

One is used in production already by key laboratories in HPC research, the other wants to be and is far away from being 1.0.

Chapel current version is 2.8.0.

I don't understand this framing, so? Cpp, Julia are more widely adopted, used in HPC. it does not mean that people shouldn't start, learn new languages.

  • In the LLM age, maybe the focus should be elsewhere instead of syntax.

    • is that so? People are still reading their code to understand it and ask (or make modifications). even in the (LLM age) language design, readability is still as relevant as before.

      I don't see the superficial comparisons between why this new Y when we have X are not really helpful. Languages and system got adopted not for their stated goal only, but for the underlying details capabilities, good design which translates to better user experience and ecosystem growth.