An amazing accomplishment and a real feather in the cap for Rust.
When are we going to see this incorporated into the mainline kernel?
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Traces of the Rust work gets merged in every version. They come in small pieces, and now the next version has even more abstractions that are needed for the M1 GPU driver to eventually get there.
How long til apple grabs that source and repacks it into one of their closed, proprietary drivers?
Why would they do that? They're intentionally not supporting OpenGL, so that people use their proprietary API
I would love to see Apple go down the route of actually supporting modern OpenGL and Vulkan on their hardware. The hardware is amazing but forcing software to rely on Metal just holding it back especially when it comes to games.
Well, they sort of support Vulkan via a translation layer called MoltenVK. This is how the Dolphin emulator was able to get GameCube games running on M1, for example.
That's probably the most that Mac users will get, unfortunately - the only games that Apple will care about are the ones exclusive to their Apple Arcade service, which will therefore use the Metal API anyway...
Well, Mesa is licensed under the MIT license¹, which is not copyleft, so Apple is free to do so.
¹No license is mentioned in the repository of the driver, so I assume it's under the same license.
Wow the explanation of how they reverse engineered their way to pixel atomics was super interesting!
Apple beat by 2 people.
2 women, none the less :)
why did you feel the need to highlight they were women? It feels like you’re implying women are worse at programming, devaluing their effort.
Uh, no, because women are underrepresented in the software industry and there's a clear bias against non-males in this area. Only 5% of developers identify as female[1].
I only meant to celebrate diversity, and give a fuck you to this techbro society. I hope more non-males tune in to Asahi Lina's livestreams and realize to not give up an interest in programming because of their gender.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-developer-gender/
Exactly this. And it shows a good example for other underrepresented genders that there are others too in the field and they are absolutely amazing; seriously in the top 1% of the devs.
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