They're different APIs, but they have similar goals and benefits: expose native-adjacent performance for GPU tasks in a highly cross-platform API supported by b

They're different APIs, but they have similar goals and benefits: expose native-adjacent performance for GPU tasks in a highly cross-platform API supported by browsers and other host software. The original poster was asking "why [vs native graphics APIs]?", and I think the "why" is the same for both. Also- VSCode is literally an example of a use-case where you might do this in WebGPU, they just didn't