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You say Vulkan drivers will, for the forseeable future, be of lower quality than D3D12 drivers and lack official support. Lets assume I blindly accept this fait

• Rusky 10y ago
  A hypothetical WebVulkan is tied to an API that it is guaranteed to have to translate from. A hypothetical WebGPU could simply be tweaked to better support its multiple target APIs.
  • pharrington 10y ago
    The straightforward translation and predictability of a hypothetical WebVulkan is a strong point in its favor. WebGPU's JavaScript interface can be changed arbitrarily, yes; there is nothing simple about that process.
    • Rusky 10y ago
      Vulkan (and similar APIs) are straightforward as translation targets, not so much as sources.
• ioquatix 10y ago
  Keep in mind that DX12 doesn't support Windows 7 or 8, so that cuts out a significant portion of the existing market.
  • pjmlp 10y ago
    Still higher than GNU/Linux will ever be.
    • algo_cheese 10y ago
      Not if you take Android into account.
      • pjmlp 10y ago
        Which is why I have precisely written GNU/Linux. Android is a Java based OS, which happens to use Linux as kernel, Google can very easily change it to something else. Only these set of C and C++ libraries are available to native applications on Android, which happen to be compiled to a .so anyway, to be loaded inside ART/Dalvik. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html Trying to link into any other GNU/Linux library that happens to be on the devices, but isn't part of that list, will trigger an app termination, starting with Android 7. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0-changes.html#ndk https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-... Also, many POSIX APIs have been removed from the kernel and require extra wrapper libraries, if they can be emulated at all. https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016posix.pdf https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016pos... https://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume4No7/Paper_15-POSIX.1_conformance_for_Android_Applications.pdf https://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume4No7/Paper_15-POSIX.1_con...
        • algo_cheese 10y ago
          Correct, Android is not GNU/Linux, I responded too fast. As the parent comment spoke about DirectX support, I should have phrased it 'Android is also in the camp of "Doesn't support DirectX" and counts for a large number of devices.'
        • johnsmith21006 10y ago
          It has the Linux kernel you just bring the GNU or whatever you need. But Google now supports containers on ChromeOS so if access you can just run in a container and the use Android X Windows server on same box. If Google would gives this away have my perfect development solution. I can play my Android games on my 2 in 1 and then use full Linux when in laptop mode. But I can also debug my containers on my laptop as native. But when needed I have sold browser and other core things can never be touched. Basically give me a iPad and a Chromebook and a full Linux development machine. Well no kernel dev on Linux but most things, native, shared read, etc. But I want an extra SSD that is separate from the kernel SSD. I think this can be done and even keep read share from boot dev and something running as a container.
• AlphaSite 10y ago
  Vulkan is a lower level API, so implementing it on higher level APIs becomes problematic.