Sure, I don't mind CUDA backend as first class citizen. I'm talking about having my code sprinkled with word "cuda" all over. Why can't I write my code that is bit more abstract and potentially compilable to different backends? That is, think about the primitives instead of tightly getting married to cuda forever. AMD performance might not be good today but how about 10 years later? How about using TPUs instead? or FPGAs (if someone creates backend for it)?
Well, one problem is that you're reading an NVIDIA marketing post on an NVIDIA blog talking in particular about the lowest levels of the stack targeting NVIDIA hardware. Higher level abstractions can and do just work across different hardware backends (not as well as we'd like, but we have some thoughts on how to improve that).
