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@marcan Isn’t OpenGL deprecated since Metal?

Like 6 June at 3:35 | Wall-to-wall | Open on aus.social

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@oscarjiminy They "deprecated" it to force people to use Metal for newer features. They're probably never going to be able to completely remove it (too much software including their own uses OpenGL) and being deprecated is no excuse for failing the tests anyway.

6 June at 3:46 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

Longhorn

@marcan @oscarjiminy macOS itself doesn't rely on any OpenGL components anymore.

In fact OpenGL is completely broken on vmapples. Causes some third-party apps such as Blender to crash on launch.

6 June at 5:23 | Open on mastodon.social

Siguza

@never_released @marcan @oscarjiminy also, I would not count on "system apps breaking" being a blocker for removing OpenGL. Not since they trashed System Settings with SwiftUI. Maybe they'll remove the system app in question altogether if enough people complain though.

6 June at 5:47 | Open on infosec.space

Longhorn

@siguza @marcan @oscarjiminy last time I ran Chess on vmapple it was at like 1fps because of a very slow SW rendering path presumably. Wonder if they addressed that

6 June at 5:53 | Open on mastodon.social

Siguza

@never_released @marcan @oscarjiminy that probably directly depends on whether either Tim Cook personally or an engineer with commit access to the Chess app codebase is using it inside VZ.fw...

6 June at 6:03 | Open on infosec.space