Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

Post by vladde » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

xbmcuser wrote: post #70

tombert wrote: post #45

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> I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p Genuine question...why not just type "crap"? It's not even that much of a curse, but I've never really understood the point of self-censorship. If you don't want to curse then you could just use a non-curse word.

* is used to give emphasis and show that they are using the word as curse word rather just calling it bad

Post by darkwater » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:37 AM UTC

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Having also played with Metal and WebGPU (at least years ago), I would say that CUDA is, amazingly, the best GPGPU API we have. Do I wish we had an open source parallel programming language as good or better than it? Yes. But asymmetrically hating on CUDA like this is how we continue to lag behind it in UX. > The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write y…

People that attack proprietary APIs always miss the point why most devs outside FOSS circles prefer them. Turns out when one isn't ideologically against something they aren't willing to put up with a lesser experience just for the cause.

Post by Asmod4n » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:38 AM UTC

preg_match wrote: post #173

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The CPU on most machines is quite proprietary. I don’t understand this faux purity dogma. Practical computing is not and never has been an abstract pure concept. It’s about making machines built by corporations to do usefull things at scale. There is no ”non proprietary” computing unless you make your own stack.

Yes but there are business costs to using high-level proprietary tools and libraries. If you write your app using win32, you won’t be able to port is very easily. You’re also stuck with whatever bad or bizarre decisions Microsoft made. It’s even worse for CUDA. GPUs are expensive, and now you’re vendor locked. You’re between a rock and a hard place. Either spend millions in engineering time, or millions on price-gaug…

Post by saberience » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC

xbmcuser wrote: post #164

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It doesn't read as emphasis to me. It reads like the person is trying hard not to curse, and they think "crap" is a curse word. It's a little bit adorable, like I'm reading a comment from an obedient child.

I guess you are not from the generation of texters. This how languages work we used to use * as a way to avoid getting censored it over time became a way to curse or give emphasis.

Post by IshKebab » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

winwang wrote: post #111

Really exciting but it reads like Claude instead of what Nvidia posts have generally been like in the past. I don't need nor want my tech blogs to sound like a young adult novel.