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This implies that they could not have pushed OpenGL to be less of a mess. Feels bad faith to argue, when you consider how bad all drivers were back then.
by taeric 4y ago
This implies that they could not have pushed OpenGL to be less of a mess. Feels bad faith to argue, when you consider how bad all drivers were back then.
- Jasper_ 4y agoEverybody wanted this. There was even an attempt at this, called "Long's Peak", that was ultimately voted down by the OpenGL committee after a long development road. Nobody else needed to sabotage OpenGL, Khronos was more than happy to do it themselves.
- david-gpu 4y ago> Khronos was more than happy to do it themselves. I was involved in a few of those committees, and sadly I have to agree. The reason Khronos is often so slow to adopt features is because how hard it is for a group of competitors to agree on something. Everybody has an incentive to make the standard follow their hardware. A notable exception to this was the OpenCL committee, which was effectively strongarmed by Apple. Everybody wanted Apple's business, so nobody offered much resistance to what Apple wanted.