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| 250 | 519 | |
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| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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metal-cpp
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Nitro: A fast, lightweight 3MB inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
My understanding is the proliferation of “XYZ-cpp” AI frameworks is due to the c++ support in Apple’s gpu library ‘Metal’, and the popularity of apple silicon for inference (and there are a few technical reasons for this): https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
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Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
This is basically also what the "official" C++ API for Metal does (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/), it's an automatically generated bindings wrapper which calls into ObjC runtime functions.
I also dabbled a bit with this idea by parsing clang AST-dumps of macOS system headers:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
Unfortunately this is very brittle, and also broke on ARM CPUs, I guess the shim code needs some ABI adjustments (famously, objc_msgSend has multiple "ABI shapes": https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...).
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What's the best way to learn Metal?
There's official C++-interface: https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
- What are some alternatives to OpenGL for Mac
- Opinion for graphic api's?
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
It doesn't matter if the project driven by Microsoft or not, the cat (of automatically generated language bindings) is out of the bag. E.g. Zig is using the same approach without being an official MS project: https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32, and Apple has an automatically generated C++ API for Metal (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/).
In the future, the question won't be "what language do I need to learn to code on this platform", but instead "are there language bindings for my favourite language".
- Cross platform low level graphics API suitable for game development?
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GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD?
this? https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
Doesn't it just use objc/runtime.h and if anything is missing you can just add your custom api calls?
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A learning path for Vulkan that focuses on concepts?
Metal has C++ bindings (which cover a full app lifecycle so you don’t have to touch Objective-C/Swift at all) but they’re based on the Objective-C memory model. There are some helper structs mimicking shared pointers, but you’ll still need to understand the basics of how an autorelease pool is used to avoid memory leaks and/or bad access crashes.
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CTO of Azure declares C++ "deprecated"
On https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/ check Foundation folder and all those nice Object::sendMessage().
metal-rs
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What's the best way to learn Metal?
I found working in rust with these bindings much easier https://github.com/gfx-rs/metal-rs
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Unified memory on M1 macs
An alternative would be to use rust bindings for metal with gfx-rs/metal-rs. There is a metal compute example in the examples folder.
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Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API
Thanks very much for this detailed information, it's very helpful. I've filed https://github.com/gfx-rs/metal-rs/issues/222 to track it in the Rust ecosystem side.
- Conditionally run some parts of build.rs
What are some alternatives?
MoltenVK - MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.
Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
objc4
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
clspv - Clspv is a compiler for OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders
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