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		cyberax 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ten Years of D3D12 Hard disagree. OpenGL state management was unfixable if it had to keep compatibility with OpenGL 2. That's why OpenGL 3/4 ended up being such huge messes. The main problem with Vulkan is that Apple decided to go with its own Metal API, completely fracturing the graphics space.

pjmlp 3 months ago [–]

All alternatives to Vulkan predate it, and it only exists thanks to Mantle's gift.

cyberax 3 months ago | [–]

Not really. Metal technically existed before Vulkan, but it underwent a huge revision in 2017 after Vulkan release.

pjmlp 3 months ago | | [–]

All APIs have revisions.

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