Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU
by kllrnohj on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:42PM
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MoltenVK exists and runs Vulkan on Apple devices perfectly fine. Almost certainly better than WebGPU does even. Vulkan is already a common API both in theory and in practice.
It's not a nice API, but it is common and vendor neutral all the same. A lot moreso than WebGPU is, even, since Khronos has a much more diverse set of inputs than the web does. See eg all the complaints about Chrome dominating the web discussion, and even beyond that you only really need 3 companies on board. Khronos has significantly more at the table than that.
It's not a nice API, but it is common and vendor neutral all the same. A lot moreso than WebGPU is, even, since Khronos has a much more diverse set of inputs than the web does. See eg all the complaints about Chrome dominating the web discussion, and even beyond that you only really need 3 companies on board. Khronos has significantly more at the table than that.