Re:Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming
by beardyw on Monday August 05, 2024 @11:56AM
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I got interested in 3D animation so I took a look at this stuff. I quickly retreated to the safety of three.js!
Re:Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming
by gizmo on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:28AM
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Webgpu makes sense for anything that needs to render quickly or that needs a lot of control over how things get rendered.
A slideshow program with custom font rendering & line wrapping and nice shader based transitions between slides for instance.
Even something like a terminal/tty is much nicer when it renders at > 60fps with smooth scrolling. Very hard to do with DOM nodes.
Because of the web a generation of programmers has forgotten how fast and responsive applications can be. Webgpu can make the web feel fast again.
I'd like to get excited about WebGPU as well, but I am lacking enough imagination here. Games? 3D animations? What else beyond these obvious applications?
Those who are excited about it: why? what are you planning to build with it?