On: Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect

[pjmlp]

NVidia is not the only GPU producer.

If AMD, Intel and embedded OEMs actually produced quality OpenCL drivers, debugger and IDE support and libraries that could match CUDA productivity, maybe devs would bother to use C with OpenCL.

Even Google decided to create their Renderscript dialect instead of supporting OpenCL on Android.

[gcp → pjmlp]

So you're admitting that the problem is quality tooling, not lack of C++?

[pjmlp → gcp]

No.

I am saying that if the other GPU vendors bothered to actually provide a competing technology stack, that was worth the pain of using plain C, maybe GPU devs would have bothered.