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minrawstoday at 12:34 AM1 replyview on HN

Because it's convenient? Shader and vulkan semantics can be quite limiting and annoying to write.

Maybe it doesn't matter in a post AI world but perhaps it will allow better abstractions.

No need to yuck someone else's yum.


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gmueckltoday at 7:51 AM

The compute shader side of Vulkan is actually fairly smooth compared to graphics. It's not really that different from low level CUDA or OpenCL. The Vulkan complexities overwhelmingly concern rasterization and raytracing.