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What does a language built for parallel computing from the ground up look like?

Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21), Brad Chamberlain and Jade Abraham will be giving an overview, update, and demo of Chapel at the Northwest C++ Users’ Group at 7pm PT. Attend in person in Bellevue WA, or online using Microsoft Teams.

https://nwcpp.org/May-2026.html

Chapel Programming Language Apr 21

The open-source Chapel programming language project is seeking new sources of funding—or other creative ways of sustaining the project—in order to keep the technology going. For details, please see our announcement on the Chapel blog: https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/cff/

Chapel Programming Language Apr 13

While HPC hardware has been evolving at a breakneck pace over the past three decades, the languages we use to write HPC code haven’t changed as much. Read Brad Chamberlain’s 30-year retrospective on the Chapel blog, exploring the state of languages for scalable computing and advocating for the value of alternative approaches: https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/30years/

Chapel Programming Language Mar 31

If you were unable to attend #HPSFCon this month, slides and video for all of the Chapel-related sessions are now online. Topics include GPU programming, techno-social open-source challenges, user stories, tools, benchmarking, a live demo, and more!

https://chapel-lang.org/presentations/#hpsfcon2026

Video of all HPSFCon talks can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@hpsf-community

Chapel Programming Language Mar 27

Hear from graduate students Maxime Blanchet, Karim Zayni, Baptiste Arnould (Polytechnique Montréal) about their experiences doing cutting-edge Computational Fluid Dynamics R&D using Chapel in the tenth installment of our "7 Questions for Chapel Users" interview series: https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/7qs-champs/

Chapel Programming Language Mar 14

We’re proud to announce the release of Chapel 2.8! Its highlights include improvements to Chapel’s tools ecosystem, as well as some nice advances in portability and performance. For details, please see: https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/announcing-chapel-2.8/

Chapel Programming Language Feb 25

Our quarterly newsletter is out! Check it out to catch up on recent developments in the Chapel world, including upcoming events at HPSFCon 2026, an SC25 recap, a blog update, and more...

https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-newsletter-february-2026/

Chapel Programming Language Feb 17

Core Chapel devs are looking to write more Chapel code! Do you have a favorite library you wish Chapel had? What about a bite-sized application you want to see implemented in Chapel? Comment under https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/discussions/28389 to tell us about it!

Chapel Programming Language Feb 5

If you missed Jade Abraham's talk on Chapel and Arkouda at FOSDEM 2026, the recording is now available!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQArjdcwgo

The slides are also available: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/JRDVNU-chapel/

Chapel Programming Language Feb 4

We just surpassed 300 followers on LinkedIn — if you use LinkedIn, be sure to follow us! https://www.linkedin.com/company/chapellanguage

Project Website	https://chapel-lang.org/
GitHub	https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/