{"id":1237210,"date":"2025-03-05T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237210"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:44:08","slug":"two-new-graph-based-functional-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237210","title":{"rendered":"[$] Two new graph-based functional programming languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nFunctional programming languages have a long association with graphs. In the<br \/>\n1990s, it was even thought that parallel graph-reduction<br \/>\narchitectures could make functional programming languages much faster than their<br \/>\nimperative counterparts. Alas, that prediction mostly failed to materialize.<br \/>\nEven though graphs are still used as a theoretical formalism in order to define<br \/>\nand optimize functional languages (such as Haskell&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/implementing-lazy-functional-languages-on-stock-hardware-the-spineless-tagless-g-machine\/\"><br \/>\nspineless tagless graph-machine<\/a>), they are still mostly compiled down to the same old<br \/>\nnon-parallel assembly code that every other language uses. Now, two<br \/>\nprojects \u2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/higherorderco.com\/\"><br \/>\nBend<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vine.dev\/\"><br \/>\nVine<\/a> \u2014 have sprung up attempting to change that, and prove that<br \/>\nparallel graph reduction can be a useful technique for real programs.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional programming languages have a long association with graphs. In the 1990s, it was even thought that parallel graph-reduction architectures could make functional programming languages much faster than their imperative counterparts. Alas, that prediction mostly failed to materialize. Even though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,116,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-lwn-net","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}