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debugnikyesterday at 7:19 PM4 repliesview on HN

> (em dash) no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust.

Official CUDA port and they couldn't even bother with the introductory paragraph.

Okay, I'll try to ignore it and read the docs. Hey a custom IR, this sounds interesti-

> MLIR’s implementation, however, is C++ with a side of TableGen, a build system that requires you to compile all of LLVM, and debugging sessions that make you question your career choices.

I can't take this industry seriously anymore.


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nialv7yesterday at 7:50 PM

I think the whole codebase was more or less written by AI...

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aiscomingyesterday at 7:41 PM

if they didnt use AI for their webpage people would say "why doesnt NVIDIA write its website and documentation with AI? don't they believe their own story about AI factories and employees managing thousands of agents doing the work for them?"

this is exactly on brand dog-fooding I would expect from an AI hyper

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mathisfun123yesterday at 7:30 PM

What exactly are you upset about? Someone observing that MLIR is extremely complex and dependent on LLVM...?

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argeeyesterday at 9:05 PM

They also named it CUDA-oxide, flaunting their ignorance of what Rust lang is named after (fungi, not oxidation).

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