Campy release v0.0.16

So, I’m getting back into the swing of things here. I’ve made a release of Campy v0.0.16. This release adds in the change for CUDA, whereby Campy interfaces directly with the graphics card drivers. The NVIDIA GPU Toolkit is now no longer required, except when building Campy from scratch. The NuGet package is also smaller because it contains only one target–netstandard2.0.

In order to save time, starting from this release, I’m suspending the builds of the Linux target for now. It only adds to the development time for Campy–which is still just “alpha”. I’ll add in the Linux target once the entire runtime and compiler are completely cleaned up.

For the runtime, I’m rewriting all the nasty C/C++ code that the “experts” wrote over the years in Net Core, replacing that code with C#, or unsafe C# code. It will first require a complete rewrite of the meta system. The goal is to make the compiler and runtime portable to any CPU or GPU using a bootstrap process.

Rewriting the runtime will require a lot of work–“years” according to the “experts”. But I am not shy from a difficult task. I don’t think it will require “years”. But, I have basically a whole lot of free time and an axe to grind.