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0 pointsmatthewmacleod3y ago0 comments

The absence of Vulkan on Apple platforms—something that it’s worth noting was developed after Apple’s Metal equivalent—is in absolutely no way even approaching a barrier to building a “native GUI framework”.

There literally are cross-platform native GUI frameworks. Even Electron itself is a third-party implementation of a GUI framework - it doesn’t use the platform’s web tech implementation and bundles its own.

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skohan3y ago

It's just one example of an impediment. If all the major platforms used a consistent standards-based graphics API, you could have one implementation of the drawing layer shared between all platforms.

All these little wedges add up.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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skohan3y ago

It's just one example of an impediment. If all the major platforms used a consistent standards-based graphics API, you could have one implementation of the drawing layer shared between all platforms.

All these little wedges add up.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse