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by boyadjian 1760 days ago
OpenGL will never die, it will be virtualized with Zink
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wlesieutre 1760 days ago
Some places are already using ANGLE for this, which takes WebGL / OpenGL ES and translates it to D3D9, D3D11, Vulkan, desktop OpenGL, or Metal (in progress) depending on platform.

From my understanding, the main goal here was for Chrome to handle WebGL on Windows using Direct3D because OpenGL driver support on Windows is not good. But it's aiming to be a universal graphics shim for many platforms.

Chrome, Firefox, Qt, and Krita all use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGLE_(software)

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TazeTSchnitzel 1759 days ago
Safari will be using ANGLE soon too (and thus support WebGL 2 finally).
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monocasa 1760 days ago
It was never going to die. There's still Glide wrappers out there, and OpenGL did way better than Glide in the market.

Virtualized was always it's end game and where well used APIs go to die.

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bsder 1760 days ago
That would actually be fine because it would take the problem of OpenGL drivers away from the manufacturers who don't give two shits of damn about it.

At this point, OpenGL is more important in being fully compatible than in being fully performant. And none of the graphics card guys care about that.

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jokoon 1760 days ago
that's pretty hopeful to hear...
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