Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 13:17:43 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> Apple has officially dropped OpenGL support at WWDC, if you 
> care to watch the presentations and early release documentation.

Are you sure they have _dropped_ OpenGL and not just got switched 
away from using OpenGL as their low level layer for Cocoa?

https://developer.apple.com/opengl/
https://developer.apple.com/opencl/
https://developer.apple.com/metal/

> They might change their mind and surprise the world, but that 
> is how things stand.

AFAIK they are on the Vulkan working group, but probably don't 
view Vulkan as ready for consumption. They needed Metal on iOS 
because GPUs on iPads/iPhones are weak. That happend before 
Vulkan came along.

So it makes sense to move Metal to OS-X while waiting for Vulkan 
to mature on their hardware (or rather waiting for older GPUs to 
be irrelevant). They have a compatibility interest in keeping 
developers on Metal until iPhones/iPads are ready for Vulkan.

> So who cares if Intel, AMD, and Valve are heavily invested in 
> Vulkan?

Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and Imagination are all in on Vulkan, aren't 
they?

Everybody cares about what they do because they write the drivers 
for next gen GPUs. It makes sense to focus Vulkan-effort on next 
generation of hardware for vendors (profit motive).

It is not at all obvious that Apple will want to keep writing and 
maintaining their own low level drivers once GPU vendors ship 
solid Vulkan implementations.

Of course, Apple cannot tell the public that Metal will become 
irrelevant in a few years... They have a story to sell.