Re:Pixelmator Pro released
by tbassetto on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:11PM
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It’s built using Metal 2 (https://developer.apple.com/metal/) which is only available on High Sierra. I guess they carefully weighed the pros and cons before making this decision!
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Re:Pixelmator Pro released
by thijsvandien on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:19PM
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For comparison, Affinity Photo offers all of software, OpenGL and Metal rendering. I suppose at least supporting the previous version of Metal would not have been a massive burden. It's not like it's a completely different API.