The Futhark Debugger

[Athas]

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-09-16-the-futhark-debugger.html

[archgoon]

Anyone here have experience using Futhark, either for fun or in a professional environment?

What was the project? What were the alternative technologies in this space?

[benecollyridam → archgoon]

I am currently using it for a university course. It is a simple language to learn. The most troublesome part is to install the right drivers on Linux. It can provide significant speedups and is simple to use with other languages.

For an alternative you could look into Accelerate for Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

[RodgerTheGreat]

trace() and break() seem like a good approach for getting acceptable debugging with a minimal impact on the design of the language. Indeed, I've often written something equivalent to trace() to help me debug functional programs.