[ryandrake]

I'm working with SDL GPU now, and while it's nice, it hasn't quite cracked the cross platform nut yet. You still need to maintain and load platform-specific shaders for each incompatible ecosystem, or you need a set of "source of truth" HLSL shaders that your build system processes into platform-specific shaders, through a set of disparate tools that you have to download from all over the place, that really should be one tool. I have high hopes for SDL_shadercross to one day become that tool.

[shortrounddev2]

I thought shaders just needed to be compiled to spir-v

[ryandrake]

My comment was specifically about cross-platform. Apple operating systems don't know what spir-v is.

[shortrounddev2]

Oh well sure if you're targeting apple as a platform you're gonna have to deal with their special snowflake graphics API

[tombert]

I wish Apple had made a point to support Vulkan. I know about MoltenVK and all that fun stuff, but for a time, there was a graphics API that worked on all of the major platforms: OpenGL.

Vulkan was meant to succeed OpenGL, and despite my annoyances with the API, I still think that it's nice to have an open standard for these things, but now there isn't any graphics API that works on everything.