Languages to choose for parallel computing

Question

Just want to start a very general discussion taking your experienced opinion about which language/s should one foray into in order to get some sort of native parallel programming support now or atleast in future. I keep my question intentionally very abstract coz I would love to hear from variety of people on how they have began leveraging multicores in their software.

Best, -Abhi

Answer 1

Go is Google's new Open Source concurrent language. I expect that, because it is Open Source and supported by Google, it will become a very popular language for parallel programming.

Take a look at the concurrent pi example here: http://golang.org/