Mastodawn

@gfxstrand regardless of the reason exciting news though!!!

@gfxstrand, just out of curiosity, can we get some details about why? Is it something like the architectures are too different to reconcile reasonably in one compiler, or is there more to it than that?

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