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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

Jun 5, 2018

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... 🙄😠

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Jun 5, 2018

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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I'm guessing Apple would have to keep OpenGL around in webkit. You can use MoltenGL if you still want to keep the same code between the web and your native build, but I believe that's still proprietary... moltengl.com/moltengl/

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Webkit would most likely be doing something similar internally in the future. Will be interesting what the other browser engines will have to do to maintain WebGL compatibility on macOS...

jordwalke

@jordwalke

Jun 5, 2018

Hopefully Apple makes this part of WebKit official supported as a gesture of good will. I mean we live in a world where Microsoft acquired github. Anything can happen.

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