> I wonder if them forcing people to use metal for graphics could bring this wall up again to make the bar too high for developers to port it. FWIW a new engin

> I wonder if them forcing people to use metal for graphics could bring this wall up again to make the bar too high for developers to port it. FWIW a new engine i'm tinkering on now and then[0][1] has an OpenGL renderer - and not even that fancy new "modern OpenGL" stuff, it is OpenGL 2 (though not out of any real practical reason, i just noticed at some point that after a couple of fixes it could run on the Athlon64+ATI X1950 Pro[2] i used back when i was in school and nowadays use as a 2000s retro PC and decided to just stick with it as a "lowest end" mode). I'm making it for the purpose of making games and my take is basically, if some platform supports OpenGL i'll support it, if not then whatever (though i'm not against using some compatibility layer as long as i can use it from Free Pascal at least). [0] https://i.imgur.com/DBaqhMo.png https://i.imgur.com/DBaqhMo.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/3lDvt7v.png https://i.imgur.com/3lDvt7v.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/m0pWioN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/m0pWioN.jpg