Stephen Brooks 🦆 on Nostr: Without the heritage of 1990s pre-shader graphics, you could replace OpenGL with a ...
Without the heritage of 1990s pre-shader graphics, you could replace OpenGL with a simpler API, right? Well, you could, but they made Vulkan instead, which takes 2000 lines of code to draw a triangle.
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