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m-schuetzyesterday at 6:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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coffeeaddict1yesterday at 10:50 PM

For beginners that's irrelevant. WebGPU has more than enough features for beginners to learn about graphics programming. Not just that, once you're used to WebGPU, going to Vulkan will be much easier than the transition from OpenGL.

pjmlpyesterday at 7:14 PM

Without any sort of proper debugging tools.