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> "OpenGL is deprecated, learn Vulkan" Unfortunately this is partially true unless we get more OpenGL updates. OpenGL doesn't support hardware ray tracing and

• tombert 3y ago
  That's been a frustration of mine as well; the OpenGL people kind of abandoned it in favor of Vulkan without a viable alternative. I guess the typical response is that people will use something like a game engine anyway, so I guess fair enough, but I want something lower level than a game engine without having to get a doctorate in graphics rendering just to draw a rotating cube.
  • zamalek 3y ago
    > viable alternative WGPU (which is not web only) papers over many of the fiddly bits of Vulkan. It is lower level than OpenGL, but not frustratingly so. Although I agree: OpenGL is still situated in an abstraction sweet spot, and could use some love/replacement.