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Sabotaging? Metal came before Vulkan.

• shmerl 2y ago
  How does that stop Apple from supporting Vulkan on their system? It is pure political sabotaging. And you can't pull any excuses like "it requires effort". Apple have pools of cash to do the right thing for users and developers. They simply very intentionally oppose it due to their dinosaur lock-in mentality.
  • astrange 2y ago
    A blog post is different from a real compliant commercial implementation. Other reasons you couldn't do it include eg someone with a patent on it won't license it to you.
    • shmerl 2y ago
      Mesa's implementation will get a compliance certification once it's ready. I don't see why they would have problems with that - other Vulkan drivers got compliance from Khronos once they passed needed tests. Patent FUDs are nonsense - no one else has such issues and many drivers already exist and work fine. The real reasons are not good at all (i.e. Apple's obsession with lock-in) and have no excuse.
    • greenduck1 2y ago
      > A blog post is different from a real compliant commercial implementation. honeykrisp is already a "real conformant" implementation and is listed on Khronos's website already. https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products/vulkan#submission_780 https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...
      • astrange 2y ago
        You left out a word.