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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#graphics folks, I'm thinking of modernizing my undergrad graphics course and move it from OpenGL. Vulkan is too hardcore for an introductory course, Metal & DX12 are not cross-platform enough. Wdyt, how deranged is it to use native WebGPU? (maybe even in rust via wgpu)

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Jens @neon.moe · 30/04/2026

I think it's better than OpenGL because it's a better reflection of current ways of doing things. I'd consider SDL GPU too, SDL feels like a thinner abstraction than browsers (and I'd consider WebGPU to be closer to SDL GPU than OpenGL/Vulkan/D3D/Metal, even though it is a standardized API).

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