Any plans for built-in support of Vec2/Vec3/Vec4 in Rust?

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   But I am writing a Vulkan-based game engine and I use https://crates.io/crates/cgmath extensively. It has vector classes, all the math functions I need, and it even supports a version of swizzling if you activate the feature. Maybe this crate can do what you need?

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   Is this really true? Python do not have first class support for Vec2 etc., but because of Python libraries such as numpy and pandas, a lot of data scientists and engineers use Python for these exact libraries.

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    If that were the case then I would see less linear algebra and more of type theory and category theory in stdlib, like monads, etc. In fact, they are adding a bunch of type theory stuff right now!

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    Isn't std::simd (nightly) what you're looking for? (Swizzling primitives, vectorized arithmetic, etc) Regardless, GPU and SIMD don't use the same abstractions because it's not a clean fit. There would need to be a rather clever innovation to make optimal code for both from a single abstraction. But rust-gpu is another project that might interest you.

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