On: WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

[jsheard]

Especially frustrating in the case of Safari, which only needs to support one native API backend (Metal) on a pretty narrow set of hardware and drivers. Firefox has a much bigger task with needing to support everything, like Chrome, but with far less resources than Google or Apple can afford to throw at it.

[aabhay → jsheard]

Its in technology preview, so likely to go GA at the next major OS cycle (1yish)

[jsheard → aabhay]

I'm not holding my breath, their WebGL2 support entered preview in early 2017 but didn't actually ship until late 2021...

[fulafel → jsheard]

And last I heard still has show-stopping performance bugs affecting eg Unity web target.