Aurora Graphics Library Initial Design Discussion

[Kagamin]

On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 07:55:03 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> It may be true of simple implementation on the same hardware 
> but consider that the OpenGL API is implemented entirely by the 
> GPU vendor, this invariably results in the same command 
> producing different results in some cases, and the cases will 
> change between vendors and API versions. It's a maddening 
> problem because while it looks right on your GPU it might look 
> different on another or it might not, this means testing on as 
> much hardware as possible, which is something that will take a 
> LOT of time as user reports bugs on their own hardware. See the 
> last paragraph in this citation: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenGL_and_Direct3D#Availability
>
> DirectX does not have this problem, granted it does so at the 
> expense of cross-platform ability, but given the pluggable 
> nature of Aurora backends I fail to see the harm in using 
> DirectX given it's uniformity on at least Windows.

How about the angle project? You were asked for shader 
compatibility too.