Labs update and April highlights

It has been an exciting first month for me at Quansight Labs. It's a good time for a summary of what we worked on in April and what is coming next.

Progress on array computing libraries

Our first bucket of activities I'd call "innovation". The most prominent projects in this bucket are XND, uarray, metadsl, python-moa, Remote Backend Compiler and arrayviews. XND is an umbrella name for a set of related array computing libraries: xnd, ndtypes, gumath, and xndtools.

Hameer Abbasi made some major steps forward with uarray: the backend and coercion semantics are now largely worked out, there is good documentation, and the unumpy package (which currently has numpy, XND and PyTorch backends) is progressing well. This blog post gives a good overview of the motivation for uarray and its main concepts.

Saul Shanabrook and Chris Ostrouchov worked out how best to put metadsl and python-moa together: metadsl can be used to create the API for python-moa to simplify the code base of the latter a lot. Chris also wrote an

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