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Wasn’t the design of WebGPU heavily influenced be Metal? Or was it that metal came from a team in Apple that helped work on WebGPU?
by MBCook 3y ago
Wasn’t the design of WebGPU heavily influenced be Metal?
Or was it that metal came from a team in Apple that helped work on WebGPU?
- moron4hire 3y ago"Helped" is one way to describe it. "Sat down and kicked their feet until they got their way" is another.
- int_19h 3y agoWhat were the better options at the time?
- adastra22 3y agoOr standards bodies exist in practice to push vendor solutions on others. Apple plays that game well.
- isodev 3y agoIsn’t it nice when standards just happen to come together. I like the similarities, it certainly helps when switching from one to the other.
- troupo 3y agoApple and Mozilla presented WebGPU as basically a clone of Metal. Then the standard changed a bit, but it was still based on modern GPU APIs