7 engineers on Hacker News describe using CUDA first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Unfortunately we use CUDA, but as soon as ROCm matures, I'm going to be strongly advocating a switch away from nVidia.”
regret · production · bryanlarsen · 2017-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every update Cuda support is broken and so on.”
regret · personal · pasta · 2017-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My mayor problem, really, is that CUDA is locked to specific versions of GCC”
regret · personal · supar · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Both approaches still need NVIDIA's cuda-checkpoint for the GPU side”
neutral · production · za_mike157 · 2026-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switched over to Codex when 5.1 came out... Really nice acceleration in my Rust/CUDA project which is a gnarly one.”
neutral · personal · mmaunder · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also found it useful in catching subtle bugs in my (basic, learning purpose) cuda kernels.”
neutral · personal · porridgeraisin · 2025-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked on multiple compilers (optimizations expert) at MSFT on VS and CUDA”
neutral · production · ibains · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?