Vulkan coming to Apple iOS, No thanks to them however

[Gully Foyle]

Horizons for macs to follow?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/

"Today, that gap is being substantially filled, with the open source, royalty-free release of MoltenVK—a runtime for macOS and iOS that offers an almost complete subset of the Vulkan API implemented using Metal."

 

[Chris Simon]

Elite is DirectX, not Vulcan. And I'm pretty sure that adding the compute shaders support into libraries would have to be done by Apple themselves. The last paragraph does sound promissing, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[starman]

Horizons for macs to follow?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/

"Today, that gap is being substantially filled, with the open source, royalty-free release of MoltenVK—a runtime for macOS and iOS that offers an almost complete subset of the Vulkan API implemented using Metal."

Horizons runs on a mac via bootcamp and a windows install.