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metal-cpp
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Nitro: A fast, lightweight 3MB inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
My understanding is the proliferation of “XYZ-cpp” AI frameworks is due to the c++ support in Apple’s gpu library ‘Metal’, and the popularity of apple silicon for inference (and there are a few technical reasons for this): https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
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Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
This is basically also what the "official" C++ API for Metal does (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/), it's an automatically generated bindings wrapper which calls into ObjC runtime functions.
I also dabbled a bit with this idea by parsing clang AST-dumps of macOS system headers:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
Unfortunately this is very brittle, and also broke on ARM CPUs, I guess the shim code needs some ABI adjustments (famously, objc_msgSend has multiple "ABI shapes": https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...).
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What's the best way to learn Metal?
There's official C++-interface: https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
- What are some alternatives to OpenGL for Mac
- Opinion for graphic api's?
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
It doesn't matter if the project driven by Microsoft or not, the cat (of automatically generated language bindings) is out of the bag. E.g. Zig is using the same approach without being an official MS project: https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32, and Apple has an automatically generated C++ API for Metal (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/).
In the future, the question won't be "what language do I need to learn to code on this platform", but instead "are there language bindings for my favourite language".
- Cross platform low level graphics API suitable for game development?
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GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD?
this? https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
Doesn't it just use objc/runtime.h and if anything is missing you can just add your custom api calls?
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A learning path for Vulkan that focuses on concepts?
Metal has C++ bindings (which cover a full app lifecycle so you don’t have to touch Objective-C/Swift at all) but they’re based on the Objective-C memory model. There are some helper structs mimicking shared pointers, but you’ll still need to understand the basics of how an autorelease pool is used to avoid memory leaks and/or bad access crashes.
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CTO of Azure declares C++ "deprecated"
On https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/ check Foundation folder and all those nice Object::sendMessage().
vulkan-guide
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NVK is now ready for prime time
I totally agree, and so do the people working on it as well as some of the volunteers who write tutorials.
There's an ongoing effort to create beginner friendly introductory material which was discussed in the recent Vulkanised conference. And an effort to make a better documentation site that's easier to browse than the specification.
On the volunteer front, there's a Vulkan 1.3 -based introductory tutorial (work in progress) over at https://vkguide.dev/
I think there should be a Vulkan tutorial that doesn't start with the boring stuff of initialization and window creation. It's stuff that you write once and forget about, and nothing particularly interesting happens in it.
Looking at my hobby project, excluding the boring stuff (which is reusable), a "hello compute" example is around 100 LOC and a "hello triangle" around 120 LOC. GLSL shader sources included.
Maybe someday I'll get around to writing a "learn Vulkan the hard way" blog post with examples.
- LearnD3D11, a guide aimed at anyone trying to learn Direct3D11
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Struggling to Update Vertex Buffer via Staging Buffer
Also, use https://vkguide.dev/ rather than vulkan-tutorial.
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What are the best textbooks/resources for learning graphics programming practically in 2023?
Once you're beyond the "introductory" phase, resources become more specialized based on what you'd like to learn -- there are Vulkan tutorials like https://vkguide.dev/ which will teach you the API and also give a bit more insight in how modern GPU hardware is structured, there are books like the "GPU Zen" series that do deep-dives on specific techniques, and there are tons of recorded GDC and SIGGRAPH talks on interesting new techniques. :)
- Where do I start learning graphics programming?
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Yuzu Ea 3608 is out!
Personally, I'm a hands on learner who actually wants to use this stuff in my career, so I'd recommend these tutorials: https://learnopengl.com/ https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Overview https://vkguide.dev/
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Theory on structuring graphics projects, building interfaces, and designing abstractions?
vkguide teaches some good practices regarding code/renderer structure, but I'm afraid it doesn't go as deep as you'd like. It's certainly deeper than most other tutorials, though.
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"reportedly Apple just got absolutely everything they asked for and WebGPU really looks a lot like Metal. But Metal was always reportedly the nicest of the three modern graphics APIs to use, so that's… good?"
https://vkguide.dev/ This is my favorite.
- Extension VK_KHR_swapchain not found in list of known instance extensions
- Resources to build a game engine from scratch?
What are some alternatives?
MoltenVK - MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.
vk-bootstrap - Vulkan Bootstrapping Iibrary
Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
objc4
Vulkan - Examples and demos for the new Vulkan API
metal-rs - Rust bindings for Metal
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer
OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
SPIRV-Reflect - SPIRV-Reflect is a lightweight library that provides a C/C++ reflection API for SPIR-V shader bytecode in Vulkan applications.