alt Hacker NewsIt's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders and the performance is more than good enough for a lot of applications.
I wonder if somebody has written a adapter layer to write old OpenGL and translate it on the fly to Vulkan?
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flohofwoe • today at 4:25 PM
> write old OpenGL and translate it on the fly to Vulkan
Apple's OpenGL on macOS and iOS has been a shim over Metal for a very long time. The feature set is stuck somewhere between GL 3.x and 4.1 though (e.g. no compute shaders), but not for technical reasons.
raincole • today at 4:41 PM
> It's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders
Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.
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Mesa has Zink which translates OpenGL to Vulkan. AFAIK Asahi uses it because they only wrote a native Vulkan driver for the hardware, no native OpenGL driver.
Apple themselves also doesn't ship a native OpenGL driver anymore, only a layer that translates OpenGL to Metal.