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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The current offerings (e.g. bgfx) are generally multi-platform but without
the software fallback option.

Yes, OpenGL will likely remain supported on systems other than Windows/Mac
for now at least, but we at some point will have to decide if we want to
bump our minimum OpenGL version to something higher than 2.1.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:57 PM pmx <pmx00003@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Le 11/01/2022 à 21:10, Jon Evans a écrit :
> > > IMHO, we shouldn't remove anything that helps to deal gracefully
> > with the diversity of situations (like a virtual machine), graphics
> > hardware and video drivers... and their possible bugs ! (as stated
> > about X11/Mesa).
> > [...]
> > we need to push forward into more modern hardware-accelerated graphics
> > APIs in order to make it possible to implement some desirable
> > features, help performance on large designs, etc.
> >
> > The idea is that instead of being stuck on some "lowest common
> > denominator" OpenGL, we can instead for example use DirectX on Windows
> > and Metal on macOS.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
>
> It would be nice, then, to choose a modern backend that supports
> natively multiple hardware engine, including a pure software rendering
> that could be used as "fallback". Slower, but may save the day to some.
>
>
> These third party graphics layers are usually multi platform/OS, and a
> software only rendering option is reasonable expectation, but I really
> don't know what is the current "offer", in 2021.
>
>
> Anyway, taking this into account from the beginning could make it happen
> with very little development overhead later.
>
>
> (BTW, OpenGL may well still be the hidden engine for Unix-like systems -
> just my guess).
>
> Pierre.
>
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