Re:Fuchsia OS Introduction
by flohofwoe on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:24AM
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Console APIs are nice and clean compared to Vulkan though, since they are tailored to the underlying hardware. Vulkan is a weird compromise between a low-level API and covering fairly different GPU architectures.
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The point was more about general APIs like threading or file access, anything covered by POSIX.
It is already expected to have to rewrite your GFX backend anyway using the specialized API for the platform, but people don't expect the same for general use APIs too.