DCompute development

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

Hi all,

Now that I've (finally) finished my honours thesis, I've got time 
to start working on dcompute again. I'd like to invite anyone 
interested in helping to develop and/or document (or just 
interested in general) the drivers for OpenCL/CUDA, the device 
standard library and other stuff. Please post here or on the MIR 
gitter (https://gitter.im/libmir/public) if you would like to 
contribute.

Misc stuff that needs doing:
* Derelict packages for recent OpenCL/CUDA.
derelict-cl currently supports up to 1.2 (latest is 2.1/2.2 
released May),
derelict-cuda currently supports 6.5 (latest is 8.0 released 
September 2016)

* LDC/LLVM releases that support SPIR-V. I've got OSX covered, 
Windows/Linux would be nice to have. Docker containers etc.

Exposing the OpenCL and CUDA instrinsics as part of the device 
standard library. Also any other common functionality not covered 
by the intrinsics.

The main work of dcompute will be developing the drivers for 
OpenCL and CUDA, automating the horrible APIs with the power of 
D's meta-programming. And of course building libraries of 
kernels, which is the fun part.

I will continue to develop the necessary LDC features required, 
if anyone would like to contribute to that effort I can give you 
some directions but the compiler suff is a fair bit more 
complicated.

@Mike Parker, what kind of things do you want me to write for the 
blog?

P.S: Thanks so much for Vibe, Sönke! Being able to use D made the 
writing if the server for my thesis so much less painful.