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by reactordev 134 days ago
DirectX 9 is long term stable so I don't see the issue...

No current gen console supports it. Mac is stuck on OpenGL 4.1 (you can't even compile anything OpenGL on a Mac without hacks). Devices like Android run Vulkan more and more and are sunsetting OpenGLES. No, OpenGL is dead. Vulkan/Metal/NVN/DX12/WebGPU are the current.
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pjmlp 133 days ago
Nintendo Switch supports OpenGL, across all its models.

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

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reactordev 133 days ago
It’s also almost 10 years old and not a current gen system.
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pjmlp 133 days ago
Owners of Switch 2 beg to differ.

And secondly that doesn't matter when we look at the amount of sold units.

Valve can only dream to sell a quarter of those numbers.

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reactordev 131 days ago
Valve owns the market, it doesn't have to...

Also, if we're talking Switch 2, you have Vulkan support on it so odds are you would choose 2x-10x performance gains over OpenGL. It isn't that powerful. My 6 year old iPhone is on par.

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jorvi 130 days ago
People generally don't realize how much more CPU efficient calls are with Vulkan, DX12 or Metal. And especially on handhelds, the SoC is always balancing its power envelope between the CPU and GPU so the more efficient you are with the CPU, the more power you can dedicate to the GPU.
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fc417fc802 134 days ago
The aforementioned abstraction layers exist. You had dismissed those as only suitable for backporting. Can you justify that? What exactly is wrong with using a long term stable API whether via the native driver or an abstraction layer?

Edit: By the same logic you could argue that C89 is dead for new projects but that's obviously not true. C89 is eternal and so is OpenGL now that we've got decent hardware independent implementations.

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