> They can be defined in an IDL kind of way, like e.g. WebIDL, abstractly e.g. Internet RFCs, or define mappings to all major languages in the GPGPU field, name

> They can be defined in an IDL kind of way, like e.g. WebIDL, abstractly e.g. Internet RFCs, or define mappings to all major languages in the GPGPU field, namely C, C++ and Fortran. That's already done. Mozilla's Obsidian is an object-oriented WebIDL interface to Vulkan: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/master/Obsidian-Mozilla https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/mas... Again, Khronos is just a standards group. It does what its members tell it to. Khronos is far more lightweight of an organization than, say, ISO's C++ committee. Instead of blaming Khronos, you could perhaps encourage them to focus on initiatives like Obsidian.