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Dev tools · August 17, 2026

Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

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

Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows launched on August 17, 2026 with 28 votes, #688 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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Rex is a parallel functional programming language designed for scientific workflows. It enables researchers and developers to write computational code that automatically distributes processing across multiple processors. The language emphasizes functional programming principles while handling the complexity of parallelization internally, making it accessible to scientists who need high-performance computing without managing parallel systems manually.

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The Rex Programming Language. Contribute to peterkelly/rex development by creating an account on GitHub.

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