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VectorWare
Company blog · vectorware.com/blogprogramminghardware
VectorWare is the company blog at vectorware.com, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2025, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Rust's Standard Library on the GPU”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link VectorWare's blog as a related project on running Rust code on GPUs, alongside rust-gpu and rust-CUDA, when discussing Nvidia's and AMD's GPU programming efforts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are building the first GPU-native software company, making GPU software feel ordinary.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust's Standard Library on the GPU5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-20
- Rust Threads on the GPU3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-24
- /blog/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
What Hacker News says?
How does this compare to vectorware? ( https://www.vectorware.com/blog/ )
Comment linking /blog/
on “Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust”Submitted VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA` as a story · 82 points
HN discussionYes, it is all these folks getting together and getting resources to push those projects to the next level: https://www.vectorware.com/team/ wgpu, ash, and cudarc are great. We're focusing on the actual code that runs on the GPU in Rust, and we work with those projects. We have cust in rust-cuda, but that existed before cudarc and we have been seriously discussing just killing it in favor of cudarc.
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on “VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA`”Submitted Rust's Standard Library on the GPU as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne of the rust-gpu maintainers here. Haven't officially heard from anyone at AMD but we've had chats with many others. Happy to talk with whomever! I would imagine AMD is focusing on ROCm over Vulkan for compute right now as their pure datacenter play, which makes sense. We've started a company around Rust on the GPU btw ( https://www.vectorware.com/ ), both CUDA and Vulkan (and ROCm eventually I guess?). Note that…
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on “Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'”Submitted Rust SIMD on the GPU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionvery tangentially related is whatever vectorware et al are doing: https://www.vectorware.com/blog/
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on “A CPU that runs entirely on GPU”Submitted Rust Threads on the GPU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async/Await on the GPU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Standard Library on the GPU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Threads on the GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Threads on the GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Standard Library on the GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Standard Library on the GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Standard Library on the GPU as a story · 1 points
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