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Nvidia Just Let Rust Into CUDA. Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

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For twenty years, if you wanted a GPU kernel that actually ran fast on Nvidia hardware, you wrote CUDA C++. Rust could call into it through FFI, wrap it, bind it — but the kernel itself, the code that runs on the device, was C++'s territory. That's the whole reason unsafe shows up everywhere in Rus…

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  1. 2026-09-18 09:03 · DEV Community — AI
    Nvidia Just Let Rust Into CUDA. Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

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