Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
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Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
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Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#2This is exciting
> The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. It is the effective successor to WebGL on the Web. The spec has been finalized and Chrome has already shipped the API. Support is underway in Firefox and Safari.
Interestingly, the Deno team previously attempted[0] this and rolled it back due to instability. Once this is stable, it means that ML/AI workloads will be accessible to JS developers:
> These days, most neural networks are defined in Python with the computation offloaded to GPUs. We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed. Providing WebGPU support out-of-the-box in Deno is a step in this direction. Our goal is to run Tensorflow.js on Deno, with GPU acceleration. We expect this to be achieved in the coming weeks or months.
[0] https://deno.com/blog/v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webg...
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#3This is exciting > The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. It is the effective successor to WebGL on the Web. The spec has been finalized and Chrome has already shipped the API. Support is underway in Firefox and Safari. Interestingly, the Deno team previously attempted[0] this and rolled it back due to instability. Once this is st…
Just yesterday I was looking to play around with webGPU and found the 1.8 release page. I had no idea it was removed. I hope that webGPU will gain adaptation as the best cross platform system. The incompatibility between platforms for openGL or Vulkan always made me not want to learn it.
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#4Now all that's left to do is to integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno (create a window with a WebGPU canvas, receive input events, audio buffer streaming) and it would be a nice little platform to build and distribute small games and graphics demos written in WebAssembly and/or Typescript :)
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#5Now all that's left to do is to integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno (create a window with a WebGPU canvas, receive input events, audio buffer streaming) and it would be a nice little platform to build and distribute small games and graphics demos written in WebAssembly and/or Typescript :)
excellent idea!
and use `deno compile` to ship it as a self contained binary
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#6> WebGPU is still considered unstable in Deno. To access it in Deno use the --unstable-webgpu flag
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#7This is exciting > The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. It is the effective successor to WebGL on the Web. The spec has been finalized and Chrome has already shipped the API. Support is underway in Firefox and Safari. Interestingly, the Deno team previously attempted[0] this and rolled it back due to instability. Once this is st…
JavaScript is useless for data exploration, that's why very little data scientist uses JavaScript and all kinds of none white spaces languages.
Curly braces doesn't work well in iterative explorative programming
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#8Now all that's left to do is to integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno (create a window with a WebGPU canvas, receive input events, audio buffer streaming) and it would be a nice little platform to build and distribute small games and graphics demos written in WebAssembly and/or Typescript :)
> integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno
have you tried denog (fork of deno which uses winit for Windowing and also has WebGPU support)? https://github.com/denogdev/denog
As for deno proper, according to this thread, it looks like one of the Deno maintainers has been working on Windowing support, also using winit (same as denog linked above) - https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3265#issuecomment-140065...
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#9I gotta admit at the outset I was more than a little sceptical of WebGPU for ML in general but now I have much greater respect for the usefulness of local inference as part of a webapp and the increasing ability to actually run a quantized models in the browser. Glad I was wrong !
Re: Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
#10Now all that's left to do is to integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno (create a window with a WebGPU canvas, receive input events, audio buffer streaming) and it would be a nice little platform to build and distribute small games and graphics demos written in WebAssembly and/or Typescript :)
> integrate a minimal native system glue library into Deno have you tried denog (fork of deno which uses winit for Windowing and also has WebGPU support)? https://github.com/denogdev/denog As for deno proper, according to this thread, it looks like one of the Deno maintainers has been working on Windowing support, also using winit (same as denog linked above) - https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3265#issuecomment-14…
That's fantastic!