The problem with the open standards is that their dev UX is absolutely horrible. You can't neglect usability, and then be surprised that there are no users.

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the__alchemist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is at the core of the matter for me, and my knowledge is too weak to understand why this is the case. I don't enjoy the idea of relying on Nvidia's stack for GPU compute, but the alternatives I've tried (e.g. Vulkan compute) are higher friction to use. I am trying to reconcile why; Nvidia shouldn't have this moat.

My software is labeled "CPU only unless using an nVidia GPU". I would prefer to strikethrough "nVidia". Incidentally, this means no more Mac support.

	▲	swerner 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Vulkan compute is not really designed or intended to be a CUDA competitor, its feature set is much more restricted, and Vulkan host side code is much more verbose than CUDA. OpenCL or SYCL are much closer in features to CUDA. I found that when using SYCL on Nvidia, debugging symbols etc can be passed through and you can use tools like NSight Compute to profile it as if it were CUDA.