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Most of these "alternatives" focus on CUDA C++, and overlook what actually makes CUDA interesting.

Already in 2020,

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-refresher-the-gpu-com...

> Ease of programming and a giant leap in performance is one of the key reasons for the CUDA platform’s widespread adoption

This, so much. Other platforms continue to ignore developer UX, but it's one of the main things that get's new users onboard and keeps old users around.

We're actually targeting all of it, and not just CUDA C++.
Including stuff like Fortran, Haskell, Java, .NET via PTX, Python JIT, IDE tooling integration with major IDEs, graphical GPU debugging and profiling, libraries and co?

Then I guess all the best.

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