I love the level of detail in this post, really helpful for filling in a lot of the gaps in my knowledge about the history and motivations at play. This is exac

I love the level of detail in this post, really helpful for filling in a lot of the gaps in my knowledge about the history and motivations at play. This is exactly the kind of post I love to see on HN. I haven't played with WebGPU much (coughLinux supportcough) but I'm looking forward to it. And I generally agree that even more than the API itself, having GPU code that's easily portable between the web and native languages is a pretty big deal to me.