The problem isn't C. The problem is that the buggy OpenCL garbage doesn't work at all. I once used hashcat with OpenCL in a security course on an AMD GPU and it

The problem isn't C. The problem is that the buggy OpenCL garbage doesn't work at all. I once used hashcat with OpenCL in a security course on an AMD GPU and it made my system completely unstable. I couldn't care less what the kernel is written in. I'm never going to use hashcat on AMD GPUs ever again. The other problem is that companies invest in some alternative to OpenCL which fragments the non-CUDA ecosystem.