Just ran the first program produced by a new #Futhark backend that targets #AMD #HIP. I must admit AMD did a nice job with the HIP API. It's a reasonable cleanup of the CUDA driver/runtime API.

We've got the beginnings of a #Futhark REPL now: http://repl.futhark-lang.org/ Seems to work OK for quick demonstrations.

Some AAU students doing a #Futhark-related project brought me a present!

#Futhark now has 2000 stars on GitHub! It does not have many users, though. I think people enjoy Futhark as an "aspirational" language because it solves the problems they would *enjoy* having, but not the problems they *actually* have. (I am in this category myself - #Haskell is what puts bread on my table.)

An intern is going to work on making the #Futhark type system more complicated. Free labour is one of the true perks of being an academic, and I definitely recommend it for all programming language design hobbyists.

Even if #Futhark is used for nothing else, I'll always be proud that it was used for supposedly the first fully parallel #GPU-based compiler: https://github.com/Snektron/pareas

The battle is lost on Twitter, but it is my goal that on Mastodon, the #Futhark hashtag will be about obscure parallel programming languages for as long as possible!

Wrote a blog post about parallelizing something in #Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2023-01-27-gccontent.html Dedicated to all my students who keep thinking reduce is just foldl with a more restricted type.

New #Futhark mugs. We hand out these to students who get a top grade in our parallel programming courses.

Silly Nazi Runes are for Pagans.
#Futhark #heilung

This is probably my proudest work to date as a linguist and as an amateur graphic designer. This is the third edition of “Dansk i tusind år” (“Danish through a thousand years”) by Allan Karker, a Danish philologist. I have designed the cover, typeset and helped with the editing of the whole book. I've also added runes to the example texts and cleaned up the illustrations.

#Publishing #Philology #GraphicDesign #Runes #Futhark #Linguistics #OldNorse