Why new programming language

Taichi is a high-performance programming language for computer graphics applications. The design goals are

• Productivity
• Performance
• Portability
• Spatially sparse computation
• Differentiable programming
• Metaprogramming

Design decisions

• Decouple computation from data structures
• Domain-specific compiler optimizations
• Megakernels
• Two-scale automatic differentiation
• Embedding in Python