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You can use Vulkan via MoltenVk, personally I take Metal over Vulkan any day though (the Metal API is a lot more ergonomic - dare I say 'enjoyable' - than Vulka

• pjmlp 4y ago
  With a modern shading language. At Vulkanised they stated that eventually would rather adopt whatever Microsoft is doing with HLSL than trying to improve GLSL (no resources for that currently).
  • flohofwoe 4y ago
    The one good thing coming out of Vulkan is the whole software ecosystem which evolved around SPIRV (so that details like shading languages don't matter all that much anymore).
• apatheticonion 4y ago
  You're probably right about the semantics of the API from the perspective of a developer - however from the perspective of a consumer, the best API in the world means nothing if I can't run any games on my machine. That said, it's not a binary choice - MacOS could support both, they just choose not to.
  • flohofwoe 4y ago
    A custom 3D API wrapper around Metal and Vulkan is quite trivial compared to the other challenges of porting a game to another platform though (and the main reason why "macOS got no games" isn't even technical, but it's usually just not worthwhile from a business perspective). And MoltenVk definitely does a 'good enough job' if all you have is a Vulkan-based renderer (but most cross-platform games already have a wrapper over platform-specific APIs, including the 3D API). ...also, if Apple would provide a builtin Vulkan API, it would also (most likely) just be a wrapper over Metal, just as they did with OpenGL, so there wouldn't be much of an advantage over a 3rd party solution like MoltenVk.