Thanks, this is helpful. It seems like (based on your reply) there are people successfully using Regent for scientific computing (I'm assuming); do you think the language is a viable choice for industry, or are there particular milestones you're looking reach?
Yes, we're focus mostly on scientific computing. One of our major apps is S3D, which we ported to Regent from Legion C++ [1]. This has been the first time the domain scientists have been able to modify the code themselves; previously the C++ was too much for them. There are other examples of Regent apps elsewhere in this thread.
If by "industry" you mean in areas related to HPC, then Regent is likely to be applicable to what you want. The further you get away from HPC, the less likely that would be. You probably wouldn't use Regent to write a web server, though it's not impossible....
Right now my biggest item is making sure we support all the DOE supercomputers, which means adding support for Intel GPUs. (Regent currently supports NVIDIA and AMD.)
