It's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders and the performance is more than good enough for a lot of applications.

I wonder if somebody has written a adapter layer to write old OpenGL and translate it on the fly to Vulkan?

▲ hmry 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mesa has Zink which translates OpenGL to Vulkan. AFAIK Asahi uses it because they only wrote a native Vulkan driver for the hardware, no native OpenGL driver.

Apple themselves also don't ship a native OpenGL driver anymore, only a layer that translates OpenGL to Metal.

▲ raincole 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders

Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.

	▲	m-schuetz 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Shaders aren't the issue with Vulkan. Writing 50 lines of code for things that should be one-liners is.
	▲	throwaway2046 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		`> Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.` Not in OpenGL 1.x

▲ flohofwoe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> write old OpenGL and translate it on the fly to Vulkan

Apple's OpenGL on macOS and iOS has been a shim over Metal for a very long time. The feature set is stuck somewhere between GL 3.x and 4.1 though (e.g. no compute shaders), but not for technical reasons.