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[santaclaus]

> If most developers are targeting iOS and macOS for gaming

There are applications beyond gaming, however, and it is still kind of a drag that OpenGL is still the only de facto cross platform API in the space, and that it has miserable support on macOS.

[ryandrake → santaclaus]

What are the prospects of just wrapping OpenGL on top of Metal? Genuinely curious, since I haven't taken a deep look at Metal yet and have kind of been out of the 3D graphics biz for some time now.

[klodolph → ryandrake]

It's happening, and that's basically the future of OpenGL (a library on top of Vulkan / DirectX 12 / Metal). It will be a while, though.

[mbel → klodolph]

> It's happening

Are you aware of any project that is under development right now? I know it's theoretically possible, but I haven't seen any implementation yet.

[ryandrake → mbel]

A quick search points to a commercial project: MoltenGL[1] (I'm not affiliated with them at all, just googling).

1: https://moltengl.com