OpenGL is getting mesh shaders as well, via GL_EXT_mesh_shader

Re:OpenGL is getting mesh shaders as well, via GL_EXT_mesh_s... by flohofwoe on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:13AM (#45539963)

Vulkan (1.0 at least) being a badly designed API doesn't mean that OpenGL will be maintained unfortunately. Work on OpenGL pretty much stopped in 2017.

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Re:OpenGL is getting mesh shaders as well, via GL_EXT_mesh_s... by m-schuetz on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:29AM (#45540119)

I am sadly aware, but I won't switch until the complexity is fixed. Although I did kind of switch, but to CUDA because the overengineered complexity of Vulkan drove me away. I'm neither smart nor patient enough for that. What should be a malloc is a PhD thesis in Vulkan, what should be a memcpy is another thesis, and what should be a simple kernel launch is insanity.

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Re:OpenGL is getting mesh shaders as well, via GL_EXT_mesh_s... by exDM69 on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:17AM (#45548578)

> I am sadly aware, but I won't switch until the complexity is fixed

It pretty much is by now if you can use Vulkan 1.4 (or even 1.3). It's a pretty lean and mean API once you've got it bootstrapped.

There's still a lot of setup code to get off the ground (device enumeration, extensions and features, swapchain setup, pipeline layouts), but beyond that Vulkan is much nicer to work with than OpenGL. Just gotta get past the initial hurdle.

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