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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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C Is a Language That Can Compile for Multiple CPUs

C is way better than what comes before us, he says. The open paren closed paren thing was not good it really wasn't it was bad that was my first C experience. Now we have compute shaders which just means it's the program that runs on the GPU that runs an arbitrary function. All of these languages are being done by either GPUs vendors or people who are trying to standardize their graphics API but they're all doing the same thing.

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