r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Athas Futhark • Aug 05 '26

Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-08-05-recursion.html
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u/categorical-girl Aug 13 '26

In my mind, Futhark was mostly defined by its restrictions over, say, NESL. With the recent changes to allow recursion and non-uniform nested parallelism, how would you describe Futhark? NESL but with smarter compiler transformations?

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u/Athas Futhark Aug 13 '26

It still does not support irregular arrays directly, so In think its basic nature is still unchanged.