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Re:Firefox 68.0 by dralley on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:37PM (#20394453)
MacOS uses an absolutely decrepit version of OpenGL and a special vendor-locked graphics API (Metal) that nobody else uses.

It's not surprising they get low-priority when Apple makes it a pain to do write a crossplatform app that is supported on their platform.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by maccam94 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:26PM (#20396223)
gfx-rs is a project to provide graphics APIs in Rust, supports Metal as a backend, and there is active work to make WebRender/Firefox work with it.

https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx

https://github.com/szeged/webrender/issues/198

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