this looks promising from both a graphics/simulation perspective and a language design perspective. the language splits behavior and data, the compiler optimizes data access, and (synthetic benchmark) 10x shorter code, 2-4.5x faster rendering

in the end, compilers are the solution to every programming problem 🙂

Conversely, every nontrivial program is a compiler (or interpreter) if you look at it hard enough—it translates some sort of intent into an executable representation of it

These guys did incredibly good work. Their results are so impressive.

Reminds me an awful lot of Halide, but with a focus on efficient experimentation and tuning of data structures rather than execution schedules. Really interesting work!