My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[Ralph Doncaster]

On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 15:10:36 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 08:05:46 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>> For OpenCL I develop and maintain DCompute:
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/dcompute
>> https://github.com/libmir/dcompute
>>
>> It has a much beautified interface to OpenCL (and is mostly 
>> consistent with its CUDA interface). You can also write 
>> kernels directly in D, however this requires that LDC is built 
>> against my fork of LLVM: https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm
>>
>> It's still in dev but should be usable. Please let me know if 
>> you have issues using it.
>
> I saw your library before, but it looked like it is ONLY for 
> native D on GPUs.  I looked at it again, and don't see any 
> documentation or example showing that it works with standard 
> OpenCL kernels written in C.

p.s. since you seem to be a green team guy, you might not know 
that llvm optimization sucks on AMD.  I use -legacy when building 
my kernels to get the good old compiler.