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You think cross-platform game engines don't support Metal? They do, and have for a decade.

• Alupis 3y ago
  Who else supports Metal? Oh, that's right - only Apple. There's more to game support than just graphics API. Apple chooses to make game support on OSX hard - and shocker... you don't get games supporting OSX. Who can we blame? Apple... Just like Apple chooses to make Linux kernel support hard on M1/M2 and leaves it entirely up to volunteers to make it work. Who do you blame? The Kernel developers or Apple?
  • fingerlocks 3y ago
    The Metal API is heavily documented and Apple provides a plethora of code samples in four programming languages, with literal step-by-step how-to guides on porting from OpenGL to Metal. You can complain that they don’t support third party low-level frameworks, sure. But they definitely make it easy and inviting to support their homegrown solutions
    • Alupis 3y ago
      Why does Metal exist, when there's several very prevalent, performant, better graphics API's already available?
      • fingerlocks 3y ago
        It was created before the others existed.