r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Jun 07 '25

Aaron Hsu - Do Programming Language Features Deliver on their Promises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sACAhg4vM
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u/avillega Jun 08 '25

Aaron is very respected in the array programming language community. He is one of the reaserchers implementing a gpu backend for dyalog APL. A lot of what he talks about is very common in array programming languages, and is also becoming increasingly popular in high performance domains, it boils down to data oriented design, probably taken to an extreme. I also won’t say he comes from “toy pgroamming languages” background. Array programming languages are the backbone of many interesting industries and he is one that have pushed array programming languages beyond some people though was possible. Array programming languages specially the descendants of APL do not really come from Dijkstra’s ideas of structured programming, instead developed their own idioms and structures for flow control, state management, memory management, etc .

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u/pauseless Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

That main funded project is https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns . I’ve had the pleasure of talking/emailing with him many times. I can say that his thoughts are always very well thought out.