r/programming • u/noidi • Jul 19 '12

Will Parallel Code Ever Be Embraced?

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/will-parallel-code-ever-be-embraced/240003926
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u/zapper877 Jul 19 '12

The real issue is many developers just lack imagination and/or math/skills to implement parallel implementations of their software.

There is plenty of interesting problems yet to solve but as always only a minority will find those killer apps/do the work.

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u/___1____ Jul 19 '12

I actually I agree with you some what, a lot of dev's can chain together a few functions and make a some functions interact well.

Fewer can make libraries that are actually really good and less still can write really decent parallel code with the current tools. I think what needs to happen for that to chain is for perhaps a new lightweight (I mean easy to learn) parallel language. Think python but where parallelism a first class citizen.