Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 16:37:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> However if you watch "Graphics and Games" talks
>
> https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/
>
> It is all about Metal support, OpenGL being replaced by Metal 
> and OpenGL being available for the iDevices that aren't Metal 
> capable, as well as, backwards compatibility.

Thanks, I am interested in this. Do you remember which one of the 
nine videos?

> From money point of view, I don't think it makes sense to spend 
> one year paying developers to port Metal to OSX, replace OpenGL 
> in OS X/iOS frameworks and developer tools, for doing the same 
> again when Vulkan comes out.

But they don't pay as much for the Vulkan drivers... GPU vendors 
write them anyway.

I think I found out why Metal is coming for OSX now and not 
earlier. Apparently the programming model used in Metal is 
targeting hardware from 2012 or newer.