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by gfxgirl 1276 days ago
It is close to deprecation. In fact it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use (an iPhone). It's also deprecated on MacOS.

Many hardware manufactures are getting rid of it from their drivers and just using 3rd party libraries that emulated it on newer APIs.
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delta_p_delta_x 1275 days ago
> In fact it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use (an iPhone). It's also deprecated on MacOS

This is an Apple problem, not an OpenGL problem. Linux (and by extension Android, maybe Switch), Windows (and by extension Xbox), BSD (and by extension Playstation) all support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan. Apple has had issues supporting OpenGL since forever, and its OpenGL support (even before Vulkan) stagnated at 4.1, which was released ten years ago.

OpenGL is not deprecated at all. OpenGL 4.6 is a very, very modern API supporting things that many games still don't have, like mesh shaders, SPIR-V, etc.

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dmitriid 1275 days ago
> Linux (and by extension Android, maybe Switch), Windows (and by extension Xbox), BSD (and by extension Playstation) all support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan.

Yeah... no.

On Windows you're better of using DirectX since its tge only officially supported API. Xbox only supports DirectX.

Playstation only has its own graphics API.

Switch nominally has support for Vulkan, but they have their own graphics API.

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mkl95 1275 days ago
> it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use

America is one market among many. iOS usage is ~28% globally.

Even if Google suddenly announced their plans to deprecate OpenGL ES on Android, it would happen in the mid 2020s at the very earliest for bleeding edge devices, and late 2020s for whatever is considered "legacy" at that point.

A realistic scenario is that billions of people will still rely on some form of OpenGL at the end of the 2020s, and full deprecation will happen somewhere in the 2030s.

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