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After discontinuing AutoCAD for Mac in 1994 people begged for 18 years to get it back and now Apple says "eh, we didn't want that anyway." I heard they have a
by wlesieutre 8y ago
After discontinuing AutoCAD for Mac in 1994 people begged for 18 years to get it back and now Apple says "eh, we didn't want that anyway."
I heard they have a WebAssembly/WebGL version now, betting that'll get wrapped up in a WebView and we can all pretend it's a native program still.
Speaking of WebGL, that's basically OpenGL ES 2.0, but I assume the implementation in WebKit is backed by Metal? What about other browsers like Firefox?
- AstralStorm 8y agoTranslating between these two is not particularly hard. (Similar to Vulkan backend for OpenGL)
- ensiferum 8y agoIt is. Keep in mind you have to transform the shaders too and make them safe so that they would not allow for undefined behaviour to happen.
- ensiferum 8y agoLibANGLE
- rockdoe 8y agoFirefox uses OpenGL to implement OpenGL ES. It also uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated compositing.
- sbuk 8y agoAutoCAD is a dead technology. Architects/Stuctural Engineers/MEP Engineers are moving to BIM platforms (Revit, ArchiCAD, etc)! Product/Automotive/Industrial design and engineering use PLM tools (Catia, SolidWorks, etc). Besides, AutoCAD didn’t/doesn’t need much graphics power at all. AFAIK it never really used OpenGL.