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> Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p into your C++ codebase People have been doing that all the time for every kind of codebase. It's just part of the business. I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it. Seems like you are wasting your energy. Are win32 APIs proprietary? So you decide to use them, use a wrapper/UI framework, or don't develop for Windows. Easy choice. Developing for…
> I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it. Ironic, seeing as that is an opinion about it. Also weird telling people in an online discussion forum not to have opinions.
Your job as a CUDA engineer isn't to decide whether or not a proprietary API/compiler is the right call. Your boss made that choice for you when they hired you, and you accept the tradeoff if you want to keep working there. It's like someone protesting Dotnet because they wish they spent the rest of their life working with Perl instead. You can do that, but it's a completely different job with different pay grades and demands.
Since NVIDIA owns huggingface now and huggingface has the excellent Candle [1] crate for inference on Rust, this seems like a good step towards nice native Rust kernels. [1] https://github.com/huggingface/candle
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> I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it. Ironic, seeing as that is an opinion about it. Also weird telling people in an online discussion forum not to have opinions.
Oh, does that mean I get to say you're ironic because, literally, they didn't tell anyone to do anything. They said they didn't understand the worth of the opinion. You're interpretation is selectively literal in order to be rhetorical. Does that mean someone else gets say I'm being ironic because I'm selectively literal in order to be rhetorical? Well, okay, I guess it's harder now.
Where do you think you are ?
Most of us are in tech/IT/research the population in the spectrum here is orders of magnitude bigger than the avg on real life. SO yeah people will be literal in order to be rhetorical. Not even selectively, this is the one site where you NEED to use /s unironically.
I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p into your C++ codebase, it is very hard to get rid, and you end up with code that is either tied to a single vendor or an #ifdef hell, probably both. The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write your kernels in separate files, and launch them manually, like in Metal, OpenCL, and D3D12, e…
In this age of LLM written everything which has softly killed my motivation for learning Rust somewhat, this has revived my interest if not only for the fact the LLMs haven't yet been trained on this yet!
Sad to break it to you, but... I had LLMs write a pile of cuda-rust code and they were quite competent at it. Ported a bunch of (C++) CUDA kernels over, and ground away on them til they got equivalent performance https://github.com/rdaum/eider/tree/main/backends/cuda-oxide And mostly just DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, too. Not even a frontier model. Sorry.
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I don't think those filters are even real, I think it's just mass-hysteria. I call these kinds of behaviours "traditions", but I'm not sure if there's a better term for it. Basically someone comes up with something which is nonsensical, but plausible. Like believing that their videos are unpopular because they said the word "rape" and the algorithm magically got them, rather than because their videos suck. Then someo…
No it isn't mass hysteria. YouTube has a set advertiser friendly guideline. It will scan uploads and streams automatically. YouTube used to demonetise profanity unless it was mild. YouTube would demonetise profanity in the first X number of seconds of the video. These rules change and have been relaxed of April last year, but generally these rules still exist. There isn't a hard filter if you say "suicide" you automa…
I'm looking forward to trying these when they stabilize! I currently use WGPU for graphics, and cudarc for CUDA. Note: Cuda-oxide is similar to Cudarc's host component, but uses a rust-style kernel dialect. Advantage: Share structs between host and device. Disadvantage: Trading standard Cuda kernels for a new, WIP dialect. I haven't tried the tile API yet; looking forward to it. The last time I checked, Cuda Oxide wa…
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Win32 is the most stable abi on the Linux desktop.
Dead wrong. Win32 (externally) only seems stable, but internally it changes between Windows releases. Win7 syscalls are completely different from Win11 syscalls, meaning if I want to release a binary _without relying_ on Win32 I need to provide full syscall mappings _for each and every Windows version_. This doesn't happen on Linux.
Also, there are OS-provided shims in ntdll.dll (which, by the way, isn't a part of Win32 platform API, but a part of the NT kernel interface).
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kernels aren't meant to be written by any defined language. C is just a traditionally good default language that took over from assembly. No particular reason we have to stick with C.
And quite a few reasons that something better than C should be used. Rust seems a good candidate.