No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve performance, and prepare for future GPU workloads.

Sebastian Aaltonen’s super in-depth analysis of all current graphics APIs, GPU history, and a proposal for a much simpler API that better fits today’s GPUs

  • geoff@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Pretty much! As in, same goal as Vulkan, but realizing that Vulkan and friends were released ten years ago, and GPUs have changed a lot since then.