[keldaris]

> and then released Vulkan years later as a response that has had incredibly slow adoption due to the same over complexity that OpenCL died from.

I agree with everything else you said, but as someone who has used both OpenCL and Vulkan, the complexity is not comparable in the slightest. Even for pure compute applications, Vulkan is radically more annoying to use than OpenCL, though of course both are much worse than CUDA (or even Metal). OpenCL is somewhat annoying, but usable if you're okay with a basic C API, whereas Vulkan feels like an insufferable waste of time.

[dagmx]

Oh for sure. Sorry, I didn’t mean they were the same level of complexity as each other. Just that they’re significantly more complex than their respective alternatives.