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Rust CUDA Project

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146 points sksxihve | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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shmerl ◴[11 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43656833[source]▶
Looks like a dead end. Why CUDA? There should be some way to use Rust for GPU programming in general fashion, without being tied to Nvidia.
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pjmlp ◴[11 Apr 25 18:43 UTC] No.43657034[source]▶
Because others so far have failed to deliver anything worthwhile using, with the same tooling ecosystem as CUDA.
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shmerl ◴[11 Apr 25 20:11 UTC] No.43658007[source]▶
To deliver, you need to make Rust target the GPU in a general way, like some IR, and then may be compile that into GPU machine code for each GPU architecture specifically.

So this project is a dead end, because it's them who are these "others" - they are developing it and they are doing it wrong.

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1. pjmlp ◴[11 Apr 25 21:16 UTC] No.43658699[source]▶
Plus IDE support, Nsight level debugging, GPU libraries, yes most likely bound to fail unless NVidia, like it happened with other languages sees enough business value to give an helping hand.

They are already using Rust in Dynamo, even though the public API is Python.