Someone wrote a CUDA compiler. I like the spirit of this: https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
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Sebastian Schöner
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@erin_catto@mastodon.gamedev.place Box4D when?
(But seriously, nice!)
How trying out Zig made me miss header files
https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-03-27-headers/
I wanted Zig's nice toys. My DLL hot reload setup wanted an ABI. We met somewhere in the middle, and now I have the worst of both worlds. Return of the Header File 2, now live: https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-04-16-zig-abi/
Why does a tiny float4 function blow up into 400 lines of assembly on Mono? Value types, lowering, and lots of unnecessary copies. I wrote up a step-by-step walkthrough from C# to IR to final codegen. https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-04-07-mono-codegen-1/
Wow, what a discount!
More learnings from turning Mono into an optimizing compiler. This time: Why not LLVM? Was it a good idea to start with x64 peepholes? Plus some thoughts about aliasing. https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-04-13-mono-codegen-2/
It has never been about the typing
https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-03-18-not-about-the-typing/
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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place I for one am very excited for the renaissance of stylized 2D games that this going to trigger. Photorealism has never been something to strive for, and 3D is just one D too much anyway.
I have spent some time on a little project to improve codegen for Unity's Mono runtime, which is used in the editor and is even what some games ship on: https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-03-31-better-mono/
Surely someone can recommend to me a really good file comparison tool for source files? You may not believe it, but I have not felt the pressing need for one over the last 20 years, but now I do! Bonus points if it makes it easy to compare x64 disassembly in intel syntax.
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The profiler also has a couple of neat features by itself like giving you estimates for how much time your code is spending on memory stalls and annotating disassembly with inlining information. Take a look and try it for free!
See it in action here:
https://player.mediadelivery.net/play/646390/b84647af-e9f6-4ff7-81fe-05554c9a7f47
Is it "engineering manager" or "engineering man ager", as in: "person who makes my hair go grey"?
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@rivten@hachyderm.io Thanks. Yes, I usually end up compiling the single header libraries separately. I understand why single header files make the tradeoffs they make, but I only like them -- I don't love them in the way you can love a header that just contains a few very simple declarations, and that's it :)
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@neilhenning@mastodon.gamedev.place In my experience Codex is faster than Claude and follows directions more directly. Claude is more the creative type. "Codex is Claude but for programming", as a friend used to say.
Pi -- it's nice that it is such a malleable environment. You can just Pi to write an extension for itself to implement whatever behavior you'd like your coding harness to have, and BAM, it exists.
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@neilhenning@mastodon.gamedev.place I can relate very much. Thanks for writing this! Collective therapy is the only way to make sense of this.
Also, try Codex instead of Claude some day. And try Pi with Codex. There's a lot to see out there.
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@rovarma@mastodon.gamedev.place nice! It's almost like there is a gap in the market for a visual profiler for Linux that makes this stuff really obvious. Someone should probably make that; I'm sure your blogpost would be very useful to them! ;)
I made a thing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1584170/Block_Machine/
It's actually been sort of done for a long time and I was just too much of a coward to press the big green button. But now it's out, and if you are among the 17 people worldwide who have a knack for poorly explained yet surprisingly difficult Turing tarpits, you're in luck!
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@imnotafeline@mastodon.online @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social places like "school?" :)
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@vurtun@mastodon.gamedev.place I haven't actually followed that.
If it is any consolation: My takeaway was actually that I this is a super neat thing to try and in the right spirit. My main thought actually was "why has nobody else ever thought about doing this?" and I give that guy a lot of credit for coming up with this gap and doing something about it.
(FWIW, I would go full on AI on such a project as well)
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@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place well, if re-styling in 2D has no "single meaningful use", then we're safe, right? :)