The Rust-Written Kazan Vulkan Driver Lights Up Its Shader Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Rust-Written Kazan Vulkan Driver Lights Up Its Shader Compiler

This week the Kazan project (formerly known as "Vulkan-CPU") celebrated a small but important milestone in its trek to having a CPU-based Vulkan software implementation...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Kazan-Shader-Compiler

[wswartzendruber]

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[shmerl]

Queue the Rust hate.

Why? There are a lot of Rust supporters here, for a good reason. It's the best contender on a modern systems programming language.

[Guest]

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I love Rust. It's a very complex yet elegant language (not minding some rare cases where you have to spell out all types and lifetimes). At least, it's much better than the abomination that is C++.

[johanb]

I love Rust. It's a very complex yet elegant language (not minding some rare cases where you have to spell out all types and lifetimes). At least, it's much better than the abomination that is C++.

Still learning it, every time after my projects gets over ~400 lines I often get issues with either lifetimes, thread safety or both and have to redesign large parts of the program to be safe.
It's annoying as hell, but I learn a lot about how to design safe programs and in the end I end up very happy with the result.
If I would code something similar in C/C++ I probably wouldn't find that my design was bad until I would have written a couple of thousand of lines of code and would have to rewrite even more.

[wswartzendruber]

Well, this thread is going a lot better than I thought it would. I've been getting into Rust as well, although am still in my infancy with it.

I like the concept of being forced to write structurally sound code.