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0 pointsKeverw6y ago0 comments

I wonder if people will use WebGPU directly or use a higher level framework/library such as Babylon? Looks like it has support for it but doesn't seem everything is supported yet but haven't personally played with it.

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Jasper_6y ago

I'm of the opinion that WebGPU should try not to be a friendly API on its own, but instead practically mandate a framework on top. This is the philosophy that the newer APIs like Vulkan/D3D12 adopt; that you should have a higher-level renderer driving it that's able to reason about your entire scene graph. I've suggested as much to the WG before, who roughly seem to agree.

[0] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/171

flohofwoe6y ago

I don't agree. The Vulkan and D3D12 APIs didn't have to be so programmer hostile, they're just badly designed APIs.

Thankfully, WebGPU took a lot of inspiration from the Metal API, and less from Vulkan and D3D12, and thus is usable without a "sanity layer".

pjmlp6y ago

That sanity layer ended up being yet another way to foster adoption of middleware engines.

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