I’m not saying CUDA is not valuable. Heck, proprietary has a ton of value... see how Intel owes much of its position to its compiler (the FORTRAN one in particular) suite.

Of course you don’t get to dominate a field to such an extent without some redeeming positive quality.

What I’m arguing - or more appropriately, what I’m wondering - is why on Earth aren’t consumer consortiums not insisting on open-standard platforms.

I get how you want to eek every drop of performance out of your tools without making it your only mission (that would be the research you’re using the tool for), but tying yourself to a single proprietary vendor defeats that purpose imho