Comment by transpute
1 year ago
If the project is actively maintained after 10 years, it means he created a sustainable foundation.
If you're aware of specific open issues with the project, identified by the founder or others, please share details.
1 year ago
If the project is actively maintained after 10 years, it means he created a sustainable foundation.
If you're aware of specific open issues with the project, identified by the founder or others, please share details.
do you understand that "use one language to emit another language that is then immediately compiled" is literally like hundreds of languages now? numba/cupy/pytorch/jax/julia/etc/etc/etc. they all implement both a high level IR that can be transformed via the high level language (python) and a JIT/compiler/whatever.
so like why would i ever use this thing terra+lua+"5 guys maintaining it in a basement somewhere" thing?
> why would i ever use this thing
Los Alamos U.S. National Lab is funding Legion, which uses Terra, https://legion.stanford.edu/overview/
Are the Stanford researchers in a basement? The lab's previous work lead to CUDA. Does that earn them any consideration? How about lanl.gov using the language?
> Are the Stanford researchers in a basement?
I don't know how to explain this to you because you and everyone else around here worships at the alter of academia (especially HYPSM academia) but the answer is absolutely 100% yes. There is literally nothing coming out of any edu lab, even stanford, that has any relevance in this same industry (ML/AI compilers). To wit: there is no company running absolutely anything on top of legion.
> The lab's previous work lead to CUDA
This is like saying a sketch of a car led to the car. No. CUDA is the result of thousands of working engineers years labor, not academia, not academic aspirational hacking.
> How about lanl.gov using the language?
"using the language". using how? every single group at lanl is using the language? they've migrated all of their fortran to using the language? they're starting new graduate programs based on the language? you really have no clue how low the barrier to entry here is - any undergrad can start an association with lanl (or any other national lab) and just start writing code in whatever language they want and suddenly "lanl is using the language". you don't believe? me go look for any number of reports/papers on julia/go/python/javascript/etc/etc/etc coming out of lanl and ornl and jpl and etc. how do i know this? i'm personally on a paper written at fermilab based primarily around task scheduling in JS lolol.
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