RSPIRV: Google's Rust Implementation Of SPIR-V

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RSPIRV: Google's Rust Implementation Of SPIR-V

Google developers have been working on a number of open-source projects in the Vulkan space and one of their latest is SPIR-V processing with Rust...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RSPIRV-Rust-SPIR-V

[Meteorhead]

I wonder, whether having this available, will it give a boost to the Rust community to be able to write not just host side, but device side code as well in Rust?

[Zucca]

I wonder, whether having this available, will it give a boost to the Rust community...

The fact that google is developing something in Rust should already give some boost.

[CrystalGamma]

The fact that google is developing something in Rust should already give some boost.

Well, this just a 20% side project of some Google employee AFAICT, and so is the Xi editor (also in Rust—at least the core), which has existed for a few months already

[uid313]

What really needs to be written in Rust is parsers and decoders to prevent exploits.

Like GStreamer and FFmpeg.

[Steffo]

What really needs to be written in Rust is parsers and decoders to prevent exploits.

Like GStreamer and FFmpeg.

In my opinion, drivers and kernels, too.

[profoundWHALE]

It gives me a warm feeling inside when I see Google using Mozilla's Rust that likely ends up benefiting end users.

[oooverclocker]

I totally agree. Thanks, Google for choosing the right track.

[CrystalGamma]

In my opinion, drivers and kernels, too.

Though these don't automatically benefit from Rust's memory management help, because you can still mess up managing physical address space, which is outside the realm of the compiler.

BUT: if you have well-implemented memory protection, you can abstract it with pretty low overhead.

[Zucca]

...and kernels, too.

Linus would propably think otherwise. :P At least he's been bashing C++ without sparing any words.