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WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

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325 points jasmcole | 3 comments | 20 Oct 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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noahbp ◴[20 Oct 24 19:07 UTC] No.41897720[source]▶
It's so frustrating that WebGPU support was released 1.5 years ago on Chrome, and yet is still unavailable on all other browsers.

This is a real killer feature that will dramatically slow adoption of non-Chromium browsers, even with Google defanging ad blockers.

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jsheard ◴[20 Oct 24 19:45 UTC] No.41897974[source]▶
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.
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1. aabhay ◴[20 Oct 24 21:19 UTC] No.41898559[source]▶
Its in technology preview, so likely to go GA at the next major OS cycle (1yish)
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2. jsheard ◴[20 Oct 24 21:24 UTC] No.41898600[source]▶
I'm not holding my breath, their WebGL2 support entered preview in early 2017 but didn't actually ship until late 2021...
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3. fulafel ◴[21 Oct 24 04:41 UTC] No.41900737[source]▶
And last I heard still has show-stopping performance bugs affecting eg Unity web target.