This is a quick look at its syntax. http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/intro.html

It seems to be a mutlithreaded language based on C, with actually sane and readable syntax. ---------- Ok nevermind. It just looks like C, with some mutlithreaded facilities (spawn and sync). You still have to use malloc, and all the little things that make C a slow to code language are still there.