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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

vulkan is a graphics api, not a framework. their framework is using vulkan.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If their framework is using Vulkan, why is it not compatible with anything but MacOS? Isn't the point of Vulkan that it's cross platform?

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

It's not fundamentally incompatible, they just haven't written the code to make it compatible yet. GPU frameworks need a lot of OS specific code, so it will take some time for them to make it run perfectly on Linux.

[–] davawen@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is wrong. Their framework uses metal, which is an apple only graphics API.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

My bad, I was referring to the new Linux implementation which is using Vulkan, which was not clear. The MacOS implementation only supports Metal, as MacOS does not support Vulkan natively. I assume the Vulkan implementation will also be what is used for the Windows build.