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The browser truly is the new OS, for better or for worse.
It wouldn't even be so terrible, if it didn't tie us down to a crappy language (JS).
Chrome _will_ ship WebGPU in the next update... Current is 112, WebGPU is 113. Seriously google, can't you just wait until you actually ship the stuff before you say you shipped it...
It is modelled after the long defunct webglstats website.
I lost all hope for WebGPU after they decided to roll their own ad-hoc shader language that kinda looks like, but is totally not rust. At least with WebGL you had C. Without SPIR-V support this spec is just another tire on the fire that is the modern web.
Huh? WebGL uses two (incompatible to each other) versions of GLSL, not C.
The topic of the WebGPU shading language has been discussed to death already, with no new insights brought to the discussion for a very long time.
If you have a SPIRV based shader pipeline, you can simply translate SPIRV to WGSL in an offline compilation step (and to get to SPIRV in the first place, you need an offline compilation step anyway).
If you use one of the native WebGPU libraries outside the browser, you can load SPIRV directly.
I lost all hope for WebGPU after they decided to roll their own ad-hoc shader language that kinda looks like, but is totally not rust. At least with WebGL you had C. Without SPIR-V support this spec is just another tire on the fire that is the modern web.
WebGL's shading language was not C.
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Google are the people paying for Chrome, they do not benefit in any way from this kind of fingerprinting. To the contrary, it decreases the value of their browser monopoly.
> Google are the people paying for Chrome, they do not benefit in any way from this kind of fingerprinting. The largest ad company in the world 80% of whose money comes from online advertising does not benefit from tracking...
Seriously I'm looking forward to running ML inference on the web!
Can this be used to mine cryptocoins by malicious actors?
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Not really. I don't see how any of the vendors could break it without being extremely overt about it. And it has no direct competition. Nothing else runs on any OS and any GPU, except WebGL, which is abandoned.
> I don't see how any of the vendors could break it without being extremely overt about it. > except WebGL, which is abandoned. So it can be abandoned
I suspect WebGL was different, since it was based on the old OpenGL/DX9 way of doing things, so a clean break was desireable. But I honestly am not that knowledgeable in neither graphics programming nor WebGL history, so take that with several grains of salt.