alt Hacker News> The core problem with the modern apis is that they are so incredibly complicated that they will kill any newbie on the spot.
I would agree if by modern you mean DX12 or Vulkan, but WebGPU (and maybe even Metal) are quite decent.
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unclad5968 • yesterday at 9:25 PM
Webgpu is the worst of both worlds. Significantly more complicated than opengl yet not capable of many "essential" modern techniques like bindless resources.
If you must use a modern api to learn for whatever reason, go with vulkan and use dynamic rendering and buffer device addressing.
WebGPU has the issue that feature/capability-wise it is essentially 5 years behind OpenGL 4.6, which came out 8 years ago. And the other downside being that it adopted old Vulkan concepts that even Vulkan started to ditch, like render passes and static pipelines.