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zorg24 Mar 23, 2025

Thomas Phinney Feb 1, 2025

The Chrome browser on Android, Linux and ChromeOS now does all its web font processing using a Rust-based library (Skrifa) instead of its old C++ library (FreeType).

This is part of a general trend. If you look at open jobs by programming language required, Rust is now #7 (up from #10 last time I looked). C++ and C# are declining drastically, Python, SQL, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript are the top 5 and all growing rapidly. (Golang is #6, and also growing similarly to Rust.)

zorg24 Mar 23, 2025

Raph Levien Mar 21, 2025

I've now published my blog post, "I want a good parallel computer." https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html . Thanks much to all the feedback on the draft, I'd like to think I've clarified some things that might have been confusing.

I want a good parallel computer

The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from being a more general purpose computer?

Raph Levien’s blog