Comment by pjmlp

Note that Vulkan is only somehow better than anything else out of Khronos, because at least for that API someone is paying LunarG for the Vulkan SDK, and NVidia has a vested interest in now pushing slang as the shading language.

The moment LunarG no longer gets sponsored it will be back to "here is a standard, all the best, the community will provide the tools".

On the SYSCL front, that is mostly driven by Intel, and their own OpenAI tooling, there are hardly any offerings for SYCL from anyone else. Thus it is really only pseudo-open.