Support for Rust-written programs

[Aandreba]

Studying adding support for Rust-written programs.
The current plan would be to create a program that would facilitate the integration of Blaze with rust-gpu. Further details to be specified.

[hughesjs]

Is this in an effort to avoid needing to embed a C program into the application like how the official opencl3 crate recommends?

[Aandreba]

Kind of. If you want to avoid writing C code directly inside a string, you can use the standard library's include_str! macro to add the contents of a file directly into a string literal.
Apart from that, the general idea is to make it easier to include shaders written with Rust & rust-gpu.

[hughesjs]

Yeah, I was asking because it would be really nice to be able to write the actual compute code in Rust and transpile it to OpenCL C

[Aandreba]

You can write shaders with the rust-gpu project and then use RawProgram::from_il to import the generated spv file, but support for importing spv files with the blaze macro is still yet to be implemented, unfortunately.