Also it REALLY jams me up that this is a thing, complicating discussions: https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server

It sounds like they share that goal. Gluon is a thing because the Triton team realized over the last few months that Blackwell is a significant departure from the Hopper, and achieving >80% SoL kernels is becoming intractable as the triton middle-end simply can't keep up.

Some more info in this issue: https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/issues/7392

I believe it’s the other way around; Gluon exposes the primitives Triton was built on top of.

Or the GluonCV by mxnet guys (ancient! https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv)

Mojo for python syntax without the ast walking decorator, cuda for c++ syntax over controlling the machine, ah hoc code generators writing mlir for data driven parametric approaches. The design space is filling out over time.

Yeah that struck me as odd. It's more like a Python library or something.

This is pretty common among these ml toolchain, and not a big deal. They use pythons ast lib and the function annotations to implement an ast walker and code generator. It works quite well.