Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Manu]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 17:50, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 00:26:35 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > Yeah, i've been following both those efforts.
> > I don't have any free time to motivate this stuff on my own
> > right now.
> > I'm just listing all the things (because Walter asked me to).
> >
>
> Fair enough. I suppose you'd need namespaces working first anyway
> to get  much out of those tools.
>
> > Incidentally, what's the state of DCompute stuff lately? Did the
> > front-end ever get a polish pass?
> > That's actually another really high-value ticket that I could
> > use to
> > gain a lot of leverage, if it's at a place where you'd want to
> > show it
> > to developers...
> > Mostly, just a good set of step-by-step docs would make all the
> > difference.
>
> Mostly I've been stupidly busy with uni but I'm now FREEEEEEE!
>
> I'm going to wait for the LLVM 7 release (very soon) and then get
> things going again: testing, atomics, docs, API contracts etc.
> I'll post to Announce when I've done all that. I'm still waiting
> for the Khronos folks to get back to me to get the SPIRV backend
> into upstream LLVM.
>
> You're mostly interested in CUDA, right? That should be much
> easier to get shipshape.

Actually, I'm really mostly interested in DX12 shader output right
now... I think there are tools that can convert LLVM to DX shaders? I
haven't looked into it yet, but it's on my backlog.
Next would be SPIRV for Vulkan.