Posts by DarkMoondevil

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Apparently everybody keeps forgetting OpenJDK is still Oracle.

UXL Foundation readying alternative to Nvidia's CUDA for this year

Vulkan is only relevant on Android, as it is its main 3D API (nowadays even GL ES runs on top of it), and Linux.

Zero usage on game consoles PS uses LibGNM and XBox naturally DX, with exception of the Switch where the main API is NVN anyway.

On Windows, it is mostly used by folks that also want to target The Linux Desktop with their products.

And on Apple there is Metal.

It is basically Android, and Valve emulating DirectX via Vulkan on SteamDeck.