futhark vs hfmt

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futhark		hfmt
	Project
52	Mentions	-
2,291	Stars	125
2.2%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
ISC License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

futhark

Posts with mentions or reviews of futhark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

What downsides exist to Futhark? Seems almost too good to be true?
1 project | /r/CUDA | 29 Jun 2023

Why Futhark? (futhark-lang.org)
GPU Programming: When, Why and How?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023

There is no on-going work to support Metal apart from the work done by Miles. There's an old issue about it: https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/issues/853#issuecomment-5...
Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? v2023.06.11a
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023

Functional programming can be a great way to handle parallel programming in a sane way. See the Futhark language [1], for example, that accepts high-level constructs like map and convert them to the appropriate machine code, either on the CPU or the GPU.
[1] https://futhark-lang.org/
Is there a programming language that will blow my mind?
12 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 1 Jun 2023

Futhark - use a functional language to program the gpu
Does This Language Exist?
4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 22 May 2023

You might want to look into Futhark, although it's mainly designed for writing GPU code.
Learn WebGPU
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
Two-tier programming language
6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 19 Apr 2023

Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/
Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
8 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 17 Apr 2023
Functional GPU programming: what are alternatives or generalizations of the idea of "number of cycles must be known at compile time"?
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 4 Apr 2023
APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2023

hfmt

Posts with mentions or reviews of hfmt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning hfmt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing futhark and hfmt you can also consider the following projects:

arrayfire-rust - Rust wrapper for ArrayFire

lens-toml-parser - Lenses for toml-parser

dex-lang - Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

stylish-haskell - Haskell code prettifier [Moved to: https://github.com/haskell/stylish-haskell]

Halide - a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation

alga

julia - The Julia Programming Language

brittany - haskell source code formatter

BQN - An APL-like programming language. Self-hosted!

Obsidian - Obsidian Language Repository

kompute - General purpose GPU compute framework built on Vulkan to support 1000s of cross vendor graphics cards (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA & friends). Blazing fast, mobile-enabled, asynchronous and optimized for advanced GPU data processing usecases. Backed by the Linux Foundation.

language-rust - Parser and pretty-printer for the Rust language