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FOSS people like to single out Apple, because it is the only company that ships desktop and mobile OSes that ignore Vulkan. You won't find much FOSS software o
by vetinari 9y ago
FOSS people like to single out Apple, because it is the only company that ships desktop and mobile OSes that ignore Vulkan.
You won't find much FOSS software on Nintendo, Playstation or Xbox, and for the respective middlewares porting to their respective 3d apis is cost of business.
- pjmlp 9y agoMicrosoft ships also desktop and mobile OSes that ignore Vulkan. Vulkan works only on desktop thanks to the same ICD model as OpenGL, which isn't currently supported on UWP.
- vetinari 9y agoMicrosoft doesn't make the GPU drivers and the vendors are free to support any API they want, at least under Win32. Frankly, nobody cares about UWP and nobody cares about Microsoft mobile OSes. Their usage is lower than deskto BSD.
- pjmlp 9y agoUWP is the way forward, like it or not. One day those Windows 7/8.x licenses will expire. Yesterday's Windows Developer day was once again all about the store, IoT and new AI frameworks. Surfaces and hybrid laptops are also mobile OSes in a certain way.
- vetinari 9y agoMicrosoft, during last 20 years, had many APIs that were the future. They were deprecated slightly later. The licenses won't expire; the support will stop. UWP is not automatic successor, many apps are on Windows because of Win32 and that nobody wants to rewrite decades worth of code. Kill that and you kill Windows.
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- Strom 9y ago> UWP is the way forward, like it or not. In Microsoft's plans perhaps. I don't know of a single person, offline or online, who uses UWP. I've seen some UWP apps benchmarked by magazines, that's about it.
- pjmlp 9y agoAnecdote data. I also have anecdote data from our customers doing UWP ports.