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Re:Servo’s new home by sweetlucipher on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:56AM (#25126040)
Is WebGPU part of Servo? I know the guys at Mozilla were developing WebGPU API in Rust. Looking to see where it's going (I assume Firefox has to use it too. Chrome already has experimental support)

Any idea?

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Re:Servo’s new home by mrec on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:29PM (#25126583)
No, separate project, although both Servo and Gecko (the C++ Firefox codebase) are aiming to use it.

This diagram [1] kvark posted the other day might help. (I think dotted-outline boxes indicate external components, but couldn't swear to it.)

[1] https://gfx-rs.github.io/2020/11/16/big-picture.html

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Re:Servo’s new home by Manishearth on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:42PM (#25127773)
The wgpu crate is being developed by Firefox engineers for Firefox. As lastontheboat said we had a student integrate it into Servo this year.
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Re:Servo’s new home by lastontheboat on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:51PM (#25126946)
We had a summer of code student implementing support in Servo: https://blog.servo.org/2020/08/30/gsoc-webgpu/
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Re:Servo’s new home by sweetlucipher on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:26PM (#25130753)
Excellent news. Thank you!!
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