Halide, a language for image processing and computational photography
I cannot shake the feeling that this is just yet another iteration of the usual concept.<p>If you look at Google Renderscript, Microsoft C++AMP, NV Cuda, OpenCL and whatnot you'll realize that they all do exactly the same thing, difference being only in syntax level (with few caveats, but those are relatively minor). Some being more cumbersome to use than others.<p>Halide looks neat to use syntax wise but it doesn't seem to make the actual algorithms any easier to write. You still have to do the same mental work on same level as you have to do with OpenCL.<p>All of these are to eachother what Fortran, Pascal and C are to eachother. Same basic idea in different package. I'm waiting for the first system that is equivalent of C++. Something that really brings new concepts to the table instead of just a different syntax.