Alex Zahn

Don't trust devs who say "You don't need to learn C to be a dev" when they know C. They can't tell if their C knowledge was actually helpful. Don't trust devs who say "You don't need to learn C to be a dev" when they don't know C. They can't tell if this knowledge will help.

RELEASE DAY After almost 10 years of hard work, tireless research, and a dive deep into the kernels of computer science, I finally realized a dream: running a high-level language on GPUs. And I'm giving it to the world! Bend compiles modern programming features, including: - Lambdas with full closure support - Unrestricted recursion and loops - Fast object allocations of all kinds - Folds, ADTs, continuations and much more To HVM2, a new runtime capable of spreading that workload across 1000's of cores, in a thread-safe, low-overhead fashion. As a result, we finally have a true high-level language that runs natively on GPUs! Here's a quick demo: