GPUs are reliving the bad old days style proprietary tools & ISAs world. Which the GP computing world broke out of with the advent of multi vendor ISA compatib

GPUs are reliving the bad old days style proprietary tools & ISAs world. Which the GP computing world broke out of with the advent of multi vendor ISA compatibility in commodity CPUs (x86, later others) and open source compilers (GCC, later others). Before that the sw stacks were buggy, vendor locked, expensive, were gatekeeping programming langugaes development, very similarly as now in GPUs.