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by msond 703 days ago
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

We do believe in open source software and we do want to move the GPGPU market away from fully closed languages. The future is open for discussion but regardless, the status-quo at the moment is a proprietary and dominant implementation which only supports a single vendor.

> I don't see a way for a new language to catch on nowadays that is not open source.

I do note that CUDA is itself closed source -- while there's an open source implementation in the LLVM project, it is not as bleeding edge as NVIDIA's own.
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breck 703 days ago
> I do note that CUDA is itself closed source

And this is a good point. However, it also has a 17 year head start, and many of those years were spent developing before people realized what a huge market there was.

All it will take is one committed genius to create an open source alternative to CUDA to dethrone it.

But they would have to have some Mojo (hint hint) to pull that off.

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