Ask HN: C++ still dominates on GPUs, why not Rust?

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    HIP: C++ Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability

    • From what I know, modern GPUs are still programmed with C++ exclusively. See CUDA [0] for Nvidia and ROCm [1] for AMD.

    Why is this? Why Rust is not loved there?

    [0] https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/

    [1] https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP

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