News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Krita, OpenGL and Qt. Parent comment

Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by jfkebwjsbx on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:55AM (#23880069)
WebGPU is not high-level, no? It is closer to Vulkan than to OpenGL.

And I am not sure Vulkan runs everywhere... what about consoles?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by skocznymroczny on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:06AM (#23880541)
WebGPU is very similar to Metal. While it is closer to Vulkan than to OpenGL, it's still higher level than Vulkan and easier to use.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by q3k on Saturday July 18, 2020 @05:12AM (#23880130)
> And I am not sure Vulkan runs everywhere... what about consoles?

The Nintendo Switch supports it. Playstations had their own custom proprietary API since forever, and Microsoft peddles their own API on Xbox.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by pjmlp on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:22AM (#23881248)
Switch supports it alongside NVN and OpenGL 4.5, and most engines end up using NVN. Unity alone accounts for 50% of the games.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by akvadrako on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:26AM (#23880394)
> WebGPU is not high-level, no?

Right - what I read is performant WebGPU is more consistent than Vulkan between GPU vendors and I understood that to mean higher-level. But perhaps it's just a promise of a better design.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt by pjmlp on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:10AM (#23881186)
Only on the Switch, and even then they have their own API, NVN, which is what most AAA and middleware like Unity actually use.
[ Parent | on HN ]