> This module is under active development. Once upstream, it should allow Rust developers to run Rust code on GPUs. We aim to develop a rusty GPU programming interface, which is safe, convenient and sufficiently fast by default. This includes automatic data movement to and from the GPU, in a efficient way. We will (later) also offer more advanced, possibly unsafe, interfaces which allow a higher degree of control.
I really appreciate the work and the effort that went into this. However, such an approach has previously not really worked for C++ with LLVM offload. Why would it work for Rust?
> However, such an approach has previously not really worked for C++ with LLVM offload. Why would it work for Rust?
They're very different languages, with different semantics. Without reading more than the synopsis of the paper, they're 100% leveraging the substructural type system and will have a really tight requirement for you to use a certain kind of Rust code at the CPU/GPU boundary.
> However, such an approach has previously not really worked for C++ with LLVM offload. Why would it work for Rust?
I think that will depend on the exact reason(s) C++ with LLVM offload didn't work out? If Rust differs from C++ in a way that addresses pain points/failure modes/etc. from the C++ attempt, for instance, then perhaps it isn't unreasonable to think Rust could succeed where C++ didn't (c.f., Mozilla's pre-Rust attempts to parallelize Firefox's CSS styling engine). Inversely, if Rust doesn't do things differently in the right way perhaps one might expect the effort to also not work out. Or maybe the problems are entirely non-technical and things could work out in either language.
Seems to work out well for Mojo, so I'd guess it's more an issue with C++.
> However, such an approach has previously not really worked for C++ with LLVM offload
... isn't Metal shading language just C++17 compiled with LLVM ? working on every Mac and iPhone in the world is not what I would call "not really worked". Likewise, SYCL works just fine.
bruh lol this is so wrong and so confident i don't want to even attempt to explain how wrong you are.
> just C++17 compiled with LLVM
i invite you to attempt to compile/run absolutely any C++17 codebase on your iphone's GPU lol!
Wouldn't any metal app have to be written in C++17?
I mean "any C++ codebase" doesn't make sense in general. I run C++23 code on ESP32, that doesn't mean I'm gonna build KDE or chrome for it, and that doesn't make it any less C++.
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