On: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

[chadcmulligan]

And quite a few reasons that something better than C should be used. Rust seems a good candidate.

[jacobgorm → chadcmulligan]

What reasons would you have to prefer Rust over C for compute kernels? I am a great fan of Rust, but I don't see any benefit for kernels, due to their relatively simple nature.

[chadcmulligan → jacobgorm]

I'm not sure why being relatively simple would mean C over Rust? Rust still has the safety advantages.