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mattfrommars ◴[] No.44571659[source]
It's year 2025 and we have yet to have impact of CUDA like what Java had in the idea, "write once, run it anywhere"

Academia and companies continue to write proprietary code. Its as if we continue to write code for Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight in year 2025.

Honestly, I don't mind as Nvidia shareholder.

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1. bigyabai ◴[] No.44573491[source]
I'll never get over the way Apple treated OpenCL. They saw the train coming down the tracks, spent so long hedging their bet against CUDA, and threw in the towel the moment actual demand started cropping up. CUDA very nearly had a serious, corporate-funded and write-once-run-anywhere competitor.

Normally I write something snide about not seeing where the puck was headed. But Apple did skate to the puck the puck here, they just did nothing with it.