Has anyone used D with Nvidia's Cuda?

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 17:16:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/4/2015 4:29 AM, ponce wrote:
>> On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 09:50:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> * the example shown is useless
>>
>> The problem with example is that someone have to maintain them.
>> For DerelictBgfx we removed all translated examples.
>> So the Derelict policy is to remove example to avoid them 
>> becoming out of date.
>>
>> For the record Aldacron maintains approx. 22 Derelict bindings 
>> and I maintain 7
>> of them, in our free time. Keeping up with all library change 
>> is impossible if
>> everyone excpect everything to be up-to-date and with examples.
>
> Oh, I understand that keeping things up to date is always a 
> problem with every third party tool. On the plus side, however, 
> Nvidia seems very good with backwards compatiblity, meaning 
> that when the D bindings get out of date, they will still work. 
> They just won't work with new features.
>

They doesn't seem to have deprecated any function indeed. That 
could make examples practical.


>
>>> * there are no examples of actually running code on a GPU
>>
>> Because it's similar to using the Driver/Runtime API in C++, 
>> you have to read
>> CUDA documentation.
>
> Of course. But having a couple examples to show it really does 
> work will go a long way. I am not suggesting making any attempt 
> to duplicate Nvidia's documentation in D.
>
>
>>> It looks like nothing more than a couple header files (which 
>>> is a great start,
>>> but that's all).
>>
>> Maybe we can delete them so that it's not too embarrassing? 
>> Serious proposal.
>
> If that's the state of things, I'd be happy to take them over 
> and put them in Deimos.
>

Sure, the licensing of Derelict probably allows it, and deimos 
and Derelict are complimentary anyway.