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Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by sspiff on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:32AM (#42520545)
WegGPU is a way nicer HAL if you're not an experienced graphics engineer. So even if you only target desktops, it's a valid choice.

On the web, WebGPU is only supported by Chrome-based browser engines at this point, and a lot of software developers us Firefox (and don't really like encouraging a browser monoculture), so it doesn't make a ton of sense to target browser based WebGPU for some people at this point.

Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by lisyarus on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:17AM (#42521375)
It's not as much about experience as it is about trade-offs. I've worked a lot with Vulkan and it's an incredible API, but when you're working alone and you don't have the goal of squeezing 250% performance out of your GPU on dozens of different GPU architectures, your performance becomes pretty much independent of a specific graphics API (unless your API doesn't support some stuff like multi-draw-indirect, etc).
Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by pjmlp on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:19AM (#42521385)
The answer is middleware engine, all of them with much nicer tooling available, without the constraints of a browser sandboxing design, for 2017 graphics APIs minimum common denominator.