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I found this more readable and understandable than the Haskell post, although I can't quite say why. It might simply be the repetition.

I'm really interested in Futhark, though I haven't found a project where it would be make sense to use it. But I feel like it has the same potential to make GPU programming not feel overwhelming the same way Elm did with frontend work for me.

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Since Futhark has sum types, I wonder whether we could transpile Elm syntax to Futhark. I'll have to dig into what's possible with Futhark and how well it would map...

The biggest problem would be the absence of recursion, but a recursion-free subset of Elm (with a different standard library) would be straightforward.

James Carson gave a talk at this year's Elm Conf on using Elm to talk to Futhark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVP8zxpZKV8

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