Futhark
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Free functional language that compiles array code to GPU code (CUDA), praised for its quick maintainer and automatic differentiation. Critics dislike its name, which borrows from another language.
Free functional language that compiles array code to GPU code (CUDA), praised for its quick maintainer and automatic differentiation. Critics dislike its name, which borrows from another language.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Model for future GPU languages
“a glimmer of light in the wasteland of C/C++ styled low level GPU languages”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Futhark by Example” “I would argue Chapel or Futhark could be such languages”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Mojo 1.0 Beta” “it's been raised by languages like Futhark and Halide”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language” Praised as a great idea
“Futhark is pretty great! And I have to say that the maintainer is insanely quick.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Futhark by Example” “Futhark is really such a great idea.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Futhark by Example”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Name borrowed from another language
“It would be nice to not name your language after another language.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Futhark by Example” “the same main problem with generic naming language like Futhark”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Accelerate”
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10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's been raised by languages like Futhark and Halide”
“the same main problem with generic naming language like Futhark”
“The build in automatic differentiation is great!”
“a glimmer of light in the wasteland of C/C++ styled low level GPU languages”
“It would be nice to not name your language after another language.”
“Futhark is pretty great! And I have to say that the maintainer is insanely quick.”
“Futhark is really such a great idea.”
“I would argue Chapel or Futhark could be such languages”
“the solutions with proper performance already exist, Lisp, Scheme, Julia, Futhark”
“its a pure FP language (based on ML, ick) that outputs CUDA”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.