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by BruceIV 4368 days ago
This looks seriously cool. I need to spend a day or so really diving into the documentation, but if they can actually get this completely built and optimized it looks like it has the right features to be a systems language for the age of massively parallel and cloud computing.

I'm especially interested in the domain maps - I need to read more, but it looks like a system that separates the semantic view of a data structure (this is an array of integers, you can perform these functions on them) from the implementation details of in-memory layout and distribution across systems. Essentially, you seem to be able to adjust the algorithms on your data structures and the (extremely performance-critical) representation of them somewhat orthogonally.