[$] Native support for Rust on the GPU

Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/1095731/

Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of

rust-gpu
and

Rust CUDA
, two
libraries that make it possible to program a computer’s graphics processing unit
(GPU) from Rust. He isn’t satisfied with the current state of GPU support in
Rust, however. In a talk at

RustConf 2026
, he explained his vision for how the
GPU could become an ordinary compiler target for normal Rust code, without the
need for any special libraries or new ecosystem support. That vision is not yet
fully implemented, but he does have a prototype that he is preparing to release.