[almostgotcaught]

TIL you can run the WebGPU runtime without a browser.

[summarity]

For me that’s its most promising feature. At last a truly cross platform compute library (not this, WebGPU itself). With two complete and mature implementations no less (dawn and wgpu).

[binary132]

I do not think of dawn or wgpu as complete and mature, has something changed?

[moffkalast]

Yeah does Firefox support it yet in stable, or are they still a solid year behind Chrome as usual?

[rahkiin]

WebGPU is interesting outside the browser: both dawn and wgpu-rs can be used as cross playform native gpu layer. That does not depend on firefox having webgpu support

[austinvhuang]

You're not alone.

I've had hour long conversations explaining the project talking about how webgpu can be used natively, how rust and zig people are using webgpu as a main GPU APIs (with wgpu and mach) and at the end there's still clarification questions about differences from WebGL and WASM.

The phrase "native webgpu" might as well be a Stroop Effect prank in technology branding.