RustWeek Interview: Michal Kostrubiec (aka FractakFir), Compiler Engineer

In this interview, Tyler Mandry sits down with Michał Kostrubiec (FractalFir) to chat about: getting drawn into the Rust Project by way of a bikeshed, building weird rustc backends, and running Rust code on GPUs. Michał works at VectorWare and is a maintainer of Rust CUDA. Michał has been working on bringing Rust, a language designed for CPUs, to the strange and whimsical world of GPUs. He talks about the challenges of getting the Rust standard library running on a device with no OS and no filesystem, where the stack is thread-local and can't be shared. Along the way, they discuss what host-calls are, how GPUs trade latency for throughput, and the ambition to, one day, run rustc on a GPU. Michał Kostrubiec: https://github.com/FractalFir Follow @rustvideos for our upcoming video interviews Interviewer: Tyler Mandry https://github.com/tmandry Rust CUDA: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA VectorWare - Rust on GPU: https://www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-std-on-gpu/ Rust to C compiler: https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr Rust week talk about GPU semantics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnU9eBNTHG0