On: OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year

[pjmlp]

Because not everyone doing 3D graphics is implementing AAA rendering engines on RTX cards.

The ANARI effort was born exactly because the visualisation industry refusal to adopt Vulkan as is.

[flohofwoe → pjmlp]

Looking at the ANARI spec and SDK it looks pretty much like a typical C API to me, implementing an old-school scene-graph system. What am I missing - e.g. what makes it specifically well suited for non-C languages? :)

If anything it looks more like an admission by Khronos that Vulkan wasn't such a great idea (but a 3D API that's based on scene graphs isn't either, so I'm not sure what's so great about ANARI tbh).

[pjmlp → flohofwoe]

Python is part of ANARI value proposal, and the standard takes this into account.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/ANARI-SDK/tree/next_release/...

[fulafel → pjmlp]

At first blush it looks like it supports writing C in Python more than going along the grain of the managed nature:

  status_handle = ffi.new_handle(anari_status) #something needs to keep this handle alive

(from https://github.com/KhronosGroup/ANARI-SDK/blob/next_release/...)