I’m doing some work with Vulkan at the moment so maybe I’ll be able to help out with Vk support for JavaFX.
John-Val > On 5 Jun 2018, at 17:18, Johan Vos <johan....@gluonhq.com> wrote: > > Ever since Apple deprecated the developer-oriented Apple ][ , I failed to > appreciate their decisions. But so be it. > > The good thing is that the structure of the OpenJFX project allows for > different rendering pipelines without much impact on other code. > Therefore, I think it would be a nice sandbox experiment to have a Metal and > a Vulkan pipeline. > > But I agree with Kevin, we don't need a replacement for OpenGL in the Java 11 > timeframe :) > > - Johan > > >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:35 AM John-Val Rose <johnvalr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Unfortunately Apple is doing exactly what Microsoft did during the “Great >> API Wars”. During this time, MS decided to go with its own exclusive >> graphics API namely Direct 3D as part of their whole DirectX technology >> instead of the obvious approach of supporting OpenGL fully. >> >> These days, GPU drivers for DirectX work much better on Windows than those >> for OpenGL. >> >> The same will now apply for Metal drivers versus OpenGL drivers on MacOS. >> >> This is all about “vendor lock-in” and can be seen with other technologies >> like WebKit and Blink for example. >> >> Of course this is bad news for the developers but devs are not the core >> market for Windows, Apple or Google/Android hardware. >> >> The bright light on the horizon is Vulkan from Khronos which started out >> life as OpenGL 5 but is now being pushed as the ultimate cross platform >> graphics API. >> >> Even Microsoft have jumped on board and Vulkan driver support on Windows is >> good. >> >> We will have to wait and see but having a situation where OpenGL, DirectX, >> Metal and Vulkan are all important graphics APIs simultaneously is clearly >> not tenable. >> >> > On 5 Jun 2018, at 06:51, Tom Schindl <tom.schi...@bestsolution.at> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I don‘t know what the Apple guys are smoking but they just deprecated >> > OpenGL. The question is what does this mean for JavaFX. >> > >> > See https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/ >> > >> > Tom >> > >> > Von meinem iPhone gesendet
