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TIL you can run the WebGPU runtime without a browser.

• summarity 2y ago
  For me that’s its most promising feature. At last a truly cross platform compute library (not this, WebGPU itself). With two complete and mature implementations no less (dawn and wgpu).
  • binary132 2y ago
    I do not think of dawn or wgpu as complete and mature, has something changed?
    • moffkalast 2y ago
      Yeah does Firefox support it yet in stable, or are they still a solid year behind Chrome as usual?
      • rahkiin 2y ago
        WebGPU is interesting outside the browser: both dawn and wgpu-rs can be used as cross playform native gpu layer. That does not depend on firefox having webgpu support
• austinvhuang 2y ago
  You're not alone. I've had hour long conversations explaining the project talking about how webgpu can be used natively, how rust and zig people are using webgpu as a main GPU APIs (with wgpu and mach) and at the end there's still clarification questions about differences from WebGL and WASM. The phrase "native webgpu" might as well be a Stroop Effect prank in technology branding.