Ask HN: What “new” programming languages will you be using in 2017
I am going to study Cray&#x27;s Chapel [1]. I&#x27;m a cosmologist and regularly have to write&#x2F;use codes that run on clusters. In the past years I have tested many different languages to substitute C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Fortran for HPC development: Ocaml, Nim, Ada, and Julia. I must say that so far Julia has proven to be the best choice by far. However, I miss the C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Fortran compilation phase, which spots missing parameters, mismatched types and other errors which Julia catches at runtime. Chapel might provide the best of two worlds: static compilation like C, and numerical-oriented features, like Julia.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chapel.cray.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chapel.cray.com&#x2F;</a>