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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry by galangalalgol on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:03PM (#34643998)
Yeah, kinda, CUDA is c++ that I can't run cppcheck or clang tidy on, and the important bits are either calls into the cu* libraries which are c style, or kernels, which are really their own thing.
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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry by dragontamer on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:40PM (#34644737)
Yes, kernel code is GPU style rather than CPU style.

But the CPU-drivers of CUDA are all C++. Albeit a C-like API (cudaMalloc, lol), but its a clang compiler for the CPU code nonetheless. If you have complex GPU + CPU interactions, you'll need to be a C++ expert.

Even if you aren't doing GPU work and sticking "only" with CPU-side CUDA, its all C++.

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