Is cuda still a thing?

Post #444,110 by drook 5/26/24 7:46:00 PM 5/26/24 7:46:00 PM Reply	Is cuda still a thing? Real question. I look at what I was using 10 years ago and I'm pretty sure that's not what I'd use if I were starting over today. -- Drew
Post #444,115 by crazy 5/27/24 4:50:00 PM 5/27/24 4:50:00 PM Reply	What other are you thinking of? I'd say Nvidia owns the world as far as parallel processing via gpus right now and the world seems to have standardized on it. https://developer.nvidia.com/about-cuda#:~:text=CUDA%20extends%20beyond%20the%20popular,you%20can%20accelerate%20your%20applications. Of course, that's from nvidia's perspective. I heard of some projects that put front end libraries and tried to allow for seamless farming out between different co-processors which in turn would create cuda and other code. Do you have any direction you suggest I look into?
Post #444,116 by drook 5/27/24 7:53:16 PM 5/27/24 7:53:16 PM Reply	I don't actually know what's current, which sparked the question, do you? Without looking it up, I'm guessing if I went back 10 years I'd have been looking at rust, or go, or ruby on rails. And I haven't heard anyone talking about those lately. -- Drew
Post #444,117 by crazy 5/27/24 10:35:56 PM 5/27/24 10:35:56 PM Reply	Bad comparison To start off with cuda processors are the cornerstone of Nvidia graphic cards. They were originally created to create polygons or do whatever other massive co-processing it takes to keep game screens filled with pretty pictures. They are simpler than regular processors but they can pack a shitload of them in a single card. Thousands of them. So then cuda programming became whatever style that is requiring to toss off tasks to the cuda processors on an Nvidia card. Ruby is an object oriented scripting language. Ruby on rails is a framework which essentially is a whole bunch of libraries and programming styles to use the rails framework to create database driven websites. Or at least that's what I seem to recall from many years ago. Rust is a very recent systems programming language that supposedly compiles to quick machine code while simultaneously allows for memory safety.
Post #444,118 by drook 5/27/24 11:10:33 PM 5/27/24 11:10:33 PM Reply	Ah, I was thinking cuda was a language, not a hardware platform -- Drew
Post #444,130 by CRConrad 5/31/24 1:53:18 AM 5/31/24 1:53:18 AM Reply	Wha, you haven't? How? ...if I went back 10 years I'd have been looking at rust, or go, or ruby on rails. And I haven't heard anyone talking about those lately. Places like Hacker News and programming YouTube, Rust is pretty much all they talk about. (OK, not all: Also Zig, and Python of course, and still a perhaps surprising amount of Go. But yeah, lots of Rust.) -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #444,138 by malraux 5/31/24 1:14:24 PM 5/31/24 1:14:24 PM Reply	Yep, Python/Rust/Go/Typescript are the 4 horsemen now Unless you're doing Windows programmering, in which case it's C#. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #444,140 by crazy 5/31/24 9:22:43 PM 5/31/24 9:22:43 PM Reply	I changed my mind Why should I bend over backwards to learn s* that I won't apply in my life? F* that. I'll get a PS5 and game and enjoy myself. I assume you have this overarching target goal of your life. The target goal is kick the kids out of the nest and make sure that they are taken care of and then enjoy yourself on the way out. I've been forced into enjoy myself on the way out so I might as well enjoy myself on the way out.
Post #444,141 by drook 5/31/24 10:42:33 PM 5/31/24 10:42:33 PM Reply	Mostly by not reading about programming languages any more Which was my point. I have no idea what, if anything, that I used to know about is still around. -- Drew
Post #444,142 by crazy 6/1/24 10:03:58 AM 6/1/24 10:03:58 AM Reply	You remember the old days when c was used to programming operating systems, with a bit of assembler Not anymore. Rust is where it's at. Think of c but a little safer. I learned c from kerningham and Richie. I remember in '77 when my brother Leon was talking to me on the phone. I was in 9th grade. He was a grown up. He started to describe a computer that he was working on in his job. He described Unix to me. He said it would be a good idea if I ever came across Unix to go learn it. It was interesting and worth a career. 3 years later, I fell into a technical support job that involved entry-level Motorola Tandy xenix systems. And the first Intel Unix systems. And I was handed kerningham and Richie and told to go learn C while doing tech support. And a rocketing career was born. I am one of the original old geeks. I'm a gray beard. I'm not part of the original Unix group. I'm not one of those brilliant originalists. I'm a hanger on. But it was fun hanging on.
Post #444,145 by drook 6/1/24 12:53:41 PM 6/1/24 12:53:41 PM Reply	I was never that deep in the stack End user apps only for me. Closest I got to "real programming" was Pascal in school, and still like the "main loop and functions" construction. Then my first real world use of computers was Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe PageMaker doing static websites and newspapers. Then prototyping office automation in MS Access before turning it into a multi-user web app on a SQL back end; Active Server Pages, then PHP. Couple web developer gigs on PHP and Postgres/MySQL. I've done my own Linux server admin when this was all new, but now I just want to click a button to install an app then start creating "content." I'm glad there are people who like doing the back-end stuff, but I'm not one of them any more. -- Drew

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