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I'd actually love that material in C++/CUDA.

If only C++ supported interactive REPL and the rest of Clojure/Lisp goodies, that might be possible. However, the code is CLOSELY related to the actual CUDA/C++ api. It's a lot simpler, concise, and everything, but I explain everything so that you can use the relevant parts with cuDNN and DNNL APIs in any language that you're most proficient in.

Does Cling C++ interpreter do what you want? https://github.com/root-project/cling

Clojure does what I want.

Perhaps Cling can do something, or not, but I guess that's up to people who prefer Cling to find out and utilize.

Have you used it? When I last tried Cling not that long ago, it wasn't even alpha quality software and given that it has been around for a while, my default assumption would be that this hasn't suddenly improved.

it's used by ROOT at CERN, so it's unlikely it's "alpha quality software" since it's being used for production science at scale.

Thanks! That's helpful to know. I have no experience with Clojure/Lisp but a fair amount with C/C++ (minor in CUDA).

Please read a few of tutorials from my blog. Most programmers in your situation told me that they had no problems following it; it only gradually introduces advanced Clojure concepts, and code snippets are usually extremely short + completely executable interactively as-is.

This is a great site. A few pieces of unsolicited feedback from a marketing perspective:

* Always have the call to action repeated at the bottom of the page; you did a great job having it above the fold, but I got to the end and had to scroll back up to express intent. That's a flowbreaking design.

* This is purely stylistic, but I strongly prefer the first letter of each line to be capitalized. I find the stylistic inconsistency around capitalization offputting.

* You have pretty nicely made docs, consider making the link to view the sample chapters a clickable picture of the first diagram-page in your chapter.

Thanks for making this!

Thanks! I have this slated in my to-do tabs (which I actually do lol). Just looking through it looks like you did a lot of work and took a lot of time for this so just wanted to say thanks.

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