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by somethingnot 2521 days ago
> People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform

OpenGL is dying. It's already deprecated on MacOS.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/04/opengl-opencl-dep...
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yellowapple 2520 days ago
Apple deprecates lots of things that are still alive and well (see also: headphone jacks). I wouldn't read too much into that.
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Groxx 2520 days ago
Sure, but there are multiple "OpenGL on Metal/Vulkan" projects. Because it's possible to do so without all that much of a performance loss.

OpenGL effectively should die... but it's not going to be in favor of raw Metal/Vulkan, except in rare cases. Most people already use engines that abstract most of that away, and Metal/Vulkan are in basically every way better for those engines.

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