Remix clone Hacker News

Isn't Rust still very seldomly used in the areas where CUDA shines (e.g. number crunching of any kind, let it be simulations or linear algebra)? Imo C++ or even Fortran are perfectly fine choices for those things, since the memory allocation pattern aren't that complicated.

▲

IshKebab 14 days ago | parent | next [-]

Mainly because number crunching code tends to be very long-lived (hence why FORTRAN is still in use).

	▲	nine_k 14 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not only that. Fortran is very good for writing number-crunching code. Modern Fortran is a pretty ergonomic language, it gives you a really easy way to auto-parallelize things in many ways, and new Fortran code is being produce unironically. Of course it normally uses the treasure trove of existing numerical Fortran code. (Source: a friend who worked at CERN.)

▲

pjmlp 14 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, and the new kid in town, slang has more chances of adoption.

▲

KeplerBoy 14 days ago | parent [-]

sorry, could you link to the project? Seems there are quite a few languages called slang.

▲

_0ffh 14 days ago | parent [-]

I guess he might mean this one https://shader-slang.org/ though at first glance at least it looks more graphics than GPGPU oriented.

Edit: Hmm, this part of the same project looks general purpose-y and apparently integrates with PyTorch https://slangpy.shader-slang.org/en/latest/

▲

pjmlp 13 days ago | parent [-]

Yes that is the one, and all shader languages also support compute as well, not only graphics.

	▲	_0ffh 13 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks yes. Though I did not mean the bare possibility, but intended use case, which may lead to different design choices.