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Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

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https://peterkelly.github.io/rex/

HN · launched Aug 17, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views

Niche: programming languages and interpreters · 161 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Creating a dedicated parallel functional programming language and runtime designed specifically for distributed scientific workflows requires advanced programming language and distributed systems expertise.

What it would actually take: Building Rex requires a custom lexer, parser, intermediate representation (IR), type system, and an execution engine capable of parallel task scheduling across multi-core systems or HPC clusters. The hard components are lock-free task distribution, deterministic dataflow evaluation, and foreign function interface (FFI) bindings to scientific C/Fortran libraries, typically implemented in C++, Rust, or LLVM.

Discussion

7 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Nextflow, Snakemake, Dex

Concerns raised: Namespace collision with existing Rexx language, Name already potentially taken by other projects, Unclear competitive advantage over existing workflow languages

Feature requests: Async/parallelism support with content addressable storage, Integration as output from higher-level workflow specification languages, Migration guide from Nextflow/Snakemake

Competitors

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Attention rank: #833 of 4223 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.

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