Did you consider using WebGPU, or creating a bridge between WebGPU / WebGL for t...

titaphraz · 2025-04-28T17:57:46 1745863066

Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451

sam1r · 2025-04-29T02:16:30 1745892990

oh wow, i had no idea. thanks!

axelMI · 2025-04-28T17:24:20 1745861060

I did consider WebGPU but I couldn't find many advantages for the current use case.

Yes I'm planning to move to the edge as soon as it's in a later stage of development

zorgmonkey · 2025-04-29T03:56:22 1745898982

The biggest difference for you is probably that WebGPU has compute shaders and WebGL does not, they are pretty nice if you want to implement more complex algorithms.

axelMI · 2025-04-29T09:20:02 1745918402

That's true. But current shaders are very simple. The big issue I have with WebGPU is that it's still not supported by all browser (see Safari) while WebGL is nowadays everywhere.

I work on a MacBook and I need to make sure that at least Safari (soooo many issues/ bugs/ specific behaviours it drives my crazy) works fine

zorgmonkey · 2025-04-29T17:12:34 1745946754

I don't have a mac, but my understanding is that Safari Technology Preview [0] has WebGPU support (might need a change a setting too).

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/