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nathanielsimard04/24/20252 repliesview on HN

The need to build CubeCL came from the Burn deep learning framework (https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn), where we want to easily build algorithms like in CUDA with a real programming language, while also being able to integrate those algorithms inside a compiler at runtime to fuse dynamic graphs.

Since we don't want to rewrite everything multiple times, it also has to be multi-platform and optimal, so the feature set must be per-device, not per-language. I'm not aware of a tool that does that, especially in Rust (which Burn is written in).


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fc417fc80204/24/2025

> I'm not aware of a tool that does that

Jax? But then you're stuck in python. SYCL?

But yeah not for Rust. This project is filling a prominent hole IMO.

rowanG07704/25/2025

Futhark immediately came to mind. It's designed to be able to be trivially integrated into a package.