On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 22:50:49 UTC, someone wrote:
I noticed and struck me was the responsiveness of the GUI: snappy as hell compared to the usual Windows 7 machines we dealt with at the time, and, I mean snappy as hell **without** customizing it disabling animations and the like, this was a responsive GUI out-of-the-box. It was on gnome 2 of course. The first time I saw gnome 3 was game over.
I am of a similar mindset as you, when I use Linux I tend to go minimal WM and setup.
It IS depressing how much resources editors use to reach the same fluidity as the editor I used on my Amiga in the 1980s (which used hardware registers for scrolling).
IIRC openGL ES is for mobile not for desktop which needs plain openGL.
Yes, but WebGL is basically the same as ES, WebAssembly containers... D is supposed to support those?
Of course individually supporting the three main APIs is a no-go, that's why I mentioned Vulkan, you say it is not mature, it will mature. To me Vulkan is like Wayland, there's no going back regardless whether you/we consider it has merits or not.
I don't know. Hardware vendors are eager to reach market with new hardware and will most likely continue to ship buggy drivers for the bleeding edge hardware? But we can always hope. :)
Indeed. But the game industry has totally different requirements/expectations for the hardware than we need to write a classical 2D GUI toolkit. They need APIs close to the hardware as possible and very often bypass everything in its path seeking 3D performance gains.
Possibly. Yet, Skia release notes keep mentioning hardware related themes. I guess that could be your canary (wait until release notes no longer list hardware related issues).
I guess Vulkan will have separate 2D/3D APIs like openGL so this will be no major concern giving the huge different code base size for each, but I am talking of pure guess, I will eventually read about it (at least) out of sheer curiosity.
There is no such thing as 2D/3D anymore AFAIK? Shaders are fairly generic.
But you have to support at least Metal and Vulkan, and possibly WebGL. Skia is less work.
