What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?(modular.com)

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What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?

https://www.modular.com/blog/democratizing-ai-compute-part-5-what-about-cuda-c-alternatives

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> Hardware vendors recognized the long-term benefits of a unified software ecosystem, but in the short term, they were fierce competitors. This led to subtle but significant problems: instead of telling the committee about the hardware features you’re working on (giving a competitor a head start), participants would keep innovations secret until after the hardware shipped, and only discuss it after these features became commoditized (using vendor-specific extensions instead).

I wonder whether this same point is what's holding Vulkan back, which always seems to be trailing behind DX12 when it comes to innovation.