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by ioquatix 3418 days ago
Good point.

But, that's assuming that it's not possible to write a wrapper on top of DX (for Xbone) that proves a Vulkan API. It's already been shown to be possible to do something similar, with MoltenVK.

The ball would be in Microsoft's court for this one.

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"it should be not just theoretically possible, but actively supported by the design of the Web spec."
> But, that's assuming that it's not possible to write a wrapper on top of DX (for Xbone) that proves a Vulkan API.

Is this not how Vulkan on Windows works? Given how many OpenGL drivers were just shims over DirectX in the past, I wouldnt be surprised if the same course was charted there.

No, it's pointless to do that. Why all the extra overhead? Vulkan talks directly to the hardware driver.