Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account
by Rohansi on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:27PM
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Just wanted to point out that Metal is another source of lock in from Apple. Although DirectX is Windows-only you can still use Vulkan natively.
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Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account
by jsheard on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:13PM
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Kind of... Windows itself actually has zero native support for Vulkan, it's all implemented through backdoor APIs exposed by the major graphics drivers. In practice that works well enough in Win32, but it doesn't work in the UWP sandbox, so if UWP had succeeded in the way Microsoft wanted it to then Vulkan would be locked out. Chalk that one up to Microsoft trying to pull an Apple but failing to stick the landing.