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WebGL 2.0 Compute shader Demos

11 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2019-02-26 · latest 2025-07-17

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  1. …WebGPU was right around the corner. https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/ https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...
  2. …around the corner, so there was no need to adopt Intel's work into Chrome. This was back in 2020, https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues... Thankfully we are all now writing easy, portable, WebGPU computer shaders,…
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-06-30 · in The Book of Shaders (2015)
  3. …killing the WebGL 2.0 Compute shaders effort with the reasoning WebGPU is just around the corner. https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues... Now five years later, how well are those WebGPU compute shaders adoption…
  4. …WebGL 2.0 Compute much sooner than WebGPU if it wasn't for bloody politics among browser vendors. https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...…
  5. …them via WebGL Compute, as they are part of OpenGL ES, had its implementation not been sabotaged. https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/…
    comment by pjmlp · 2024-05-16 · in Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas
  6. …that the reason we don't have compute shaders on WebGL was Chrome team dropping the ball on them. https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues... https://www.khronos.org/webgl/public-mailing-list/public_web...…
  7. …shaders being available in WebGL. https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/ https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...
  8. Yes, https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/ https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader And then Google decides not implementating it after all, because of WebGPU. https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compu…
    comment by pjmlp · 2023-04-15 · in WebGPU Fundamentals
  9. …the front of that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU [1] https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/ [2] https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader
  10. …on chrome on windows if you start chrome with some flags. Here are some compute shader demos: https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader And here is a draft spec for WebGL2 Compute: https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/la…
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    WebGL 2.0 Compute Shader Demos
    story by pjmlp · 2019-02-26 · 0 comments