Here’s a comment summarizing the official rationale: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642883924 https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/

Here’s a comment summarizing the official rationale: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642883924 https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642... TBH, I don’t find those arguments convincing, but then, WebGPU is largely a political compromise, not a technical one. In a politics-free zone, they’d have standardized a “WebVulkan”, not made an entirely new thing. That would have been on the table, but Apple vetoed it. The same for a “Web-SPIR-V”. However, I also don’t think it’s that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I’m glad we have a viable standard at all.