[HN Gopher] Spatial: A high-level language for programming accel...
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       Spatial: A high-level language for programming accelerators
        
       Author : bjourne
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-10-01 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spatial-lang.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spatial-lang.org)
        
       | brap wrote:
       | It took me about 20 clicks to get to a damn code snippet
        
       | anakaine wrote:
       | What a terrible name for a project, too. There is already a very
       | healthy, thriving and rapidly growing industry around spatial
       | computing, with its roots in geospatial information science. In
       | fact, most large government organisations, councils, and a great
       | many large organisations have spatial teams. Naming your project
       | "spatial" is the functionality equivalent of attempting to take
       | over an existing name space that is already heavily used. It's
       | confusing, and a prroly thought out move.
       | 
       | Also, requiring Java? Come on.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       |  _Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333220 - Oct 2018 (37
       | comments)
        
       | mathisfun123 wrote:
       | don't get seduced - this is nothing more than a (dead) core
       | generator implemented in chisel. it was written back when people
       | thought chisel was gonna take the HDL world by storm (spoilter
       | alert: it did not). there have been successor projects but imho
       | they're all worthless - no RTL designer worth their salt uses
       | these kinds of tools and instead prefers to write verilog/vhdl.
        
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