Because it's convenient? Shader and vulkan semantics can be quite limiting and annoying to write.
replyMaybe it doesn't matter in a post AI world but perhaps it will allow better abstractions.
No need to yuck someone else's yum.
The compute shader side of Vulkan is actually fairly smooth compared to graphics. It's not really that different from low level CUDA or OpenCL. The Vulkan complexities overwhelmingly concern rasterization and raytracing.
replyPeople go through trouble to write Python-shaped DSL for GPU compute. We will go "why o why?", but apparently such things are necessary to succeed in the market.
replyWell, I suppose fake Python is better than fake C++ at least.
replyBut yeah, I think Python's dominance in science/ML will eventually pass, just as FORTRAN and Matlab did before.