[adastra22]

That’s not a coincidence.

[MBCook]

Wasn’t the design of WebGPU heavily influenced be Metal?

Or was it that metal came from a team in Apple that helped work on WebGPU?

[troupo]

Apple and Mozilla presented WebGPU as basically a clone of Metal.

Then the standard changed a bit, but it was still based on modern GPU APIs

[isodev]

Isn’t it nice when standards just happen to come together. I like the similarities, it certainly helps when switching from one to the other.

[moron4hire]

"Helped" is one way to describe it. "Sat down and kicked their feet until they got their way" is another.

[int_19h]

What were the better options at the time?

[adastra22]

Or standards bodies exist in practice to push vendor solutions on others.

Apple plays that game well.