NVIDIA Releases cuda-oxide 0.1: Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler for GPU Kernels Without DSLs

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NVIDIA Labs released cuda-oxide 0.1, an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets developers write SIMT GPU kernels in idiomatic Rust, compiling directly to PTX via a custom rustc backend — no DSLs or foreign language bindings. The pipeline emits LLVM IR and hands it to llc for PTX generation. It's positioned as the Rust equivalent of writing __global__ functions in CUDA C++, bringing device intrinsics and the CUDA programming model natively into Rust's type system and safety model.