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Microsoft is investing in Git, VSCode, Electron, Github, Bash-on-Windows. Things that decentralize and help prevent lock-in. Apple is taking away the only universal cross platform graphics system (OpenGL), locking developers into Metal, and taking away our escape keys.

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@jordwalke

I'd be more comfortable if they'd actually opened up the implementation of

@VulkanAPI

. Thankfully MoltenVK exists, and is OSS thanks to Khronos. No thanks to Apple though... 🙄😠

2:21 AM · Jun 5, 2018Twitter Web Client

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For those interested: github.com/KhronosGroup/M - here's hoping it works as advertised! If it does I really don't see any benefit at all to locking oneself into Metal at this stage.

jordwalke

@jordwalke

Jun 5, 2018

Now, is there a good way to get this API running on WebGL?

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