Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
by kaba0 on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:31AM
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Without much experience in the topic, why was the “de facto standard” SPIR-V was not chosen then instead? If they are so similar, is there any advantage of a new format?
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Here’s a comment summarizing the official rationale: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642...
TBH, I don’t find those arguments convincing, but then, WebGPU is largely a political compromise, not a technical one. In a politics-free zone, they’d have standardized a “WebVulkan”, not made an entirely new thing. That would have been on the table, but Apple vetoed it. The same for a “Web-SPIR-V”.
However, I also don’t think it’s that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I’m glad we have a viable standard at all.