Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Jasper_ 2351 days ago
I'm of the opinion that WebGPU should try not to be a friendly API on its own, but instead practically mandate a framework on top. This is the philosophy that the newer APIs like Vulkan/D3D12 adopt; that you should have a higher-level renderer driving it that's able to reason about your entire scene graph. I've suggested as much to the WG before, who roughly seem to agree.

[0] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/171
1 comments
flohofwoe 2351 days ago
I don't agree. The Vulkan and D3D12 APIs didn't have to be so programmer hostile, they're just badly designed APIs.

Thankfully, WebGPU took a lot of inspiration from the Metal API, and less from Vulkan and D3D12, and thus is usable without a "sanity layer".

link
pjmlp 2351 days ago
That sanity layer ended up being yet another way to foster adoption of middleware engines.
link