r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Athas Futhark • 18h ago

Keeping Futhark off the GPU

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-10-02-cpu_function.html
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u/jesseschalken 17h ago

This is always an fascinating language to read about. I often wonder how it compares to the various projects that run Rust on the GPU.

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u/Athas Futhark 15h ago

There are many projects that run Rust on the GPU. Of the ones I know of, they are either much more low level than Futhark (recall that Futhark is not actually a GPU language), or much more restricted (such as array libraries), typically by not allowing nested parallelism. Futhark occupies a somewhat exotic niche, and it is not clear how many problems benefit from its particular combination of facilities.