CUDA is just way to good in terms of UX with nothing platform-independent coming close to it. I wish there was a competitor, but there simply isn't. I wish AMD

CUDA is just way to good in terms of UX with nothing platform-independent coming close to it. I wish there was a competitor, but there simply isn't. I wish AMD&Intel would extend compute shaders with pointers&pointer casting, arbitrary large buffers instead of just 4GB, device-wide sync, and function pointers. Those are kinda my must-have functionality. Even better, just use C++ for compute shaders.