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A conformant OpenGL ES implementation for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2017-01-03 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. Isn't https://github.com/google/angle just that? Edit: I guess no, Angle is OpenGL ES. My bad.
    comment by eknkc · 2026-10-18 · in macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
  2. …than ANGLE. ANGLE on macOS supports OpenGL ES 3.0 when running using Metal backend (source: https://github.com/google/angle ), whereas macOS natively supports Core 4.1. And from my experience, there is basically no difference in…
    comment by shooly · 2025-03-01 · in OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes
  3. https://github.com/google/angle ANGLE is the de-facto standard library that all of the big browsers use to implement WebGL on top of other graphics APIs, if you want to read up on it.
    comment by jsheard · 2024-06-09 · in So you want to build a browser engine
  4. If you want OpenGL use ANGLE https://github.com/google/angle several phones now ship ANGLE as their only OpenGL support on top of their Vulkan drivers. If you want a modern-ish API that's relatively easy and portable use WebGPU via wgpu…
    comment by nox101 · 2024-06-07 · in I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
  5. …the last 15 years, all web browsers on Windows do WebGL on top of DirectX (using the Angle library https://github.com/google/angle ).
    comment by IvanK_net · 2023-04-27 · in Learn WebGPU
  6. …Just not the vendor provided drivers. They are indeed horrible. There are libraries like: * ANGLE ( https://github.com/google/angle ) - An OpenGL ES implementation with Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11, Desktop GL, GL ES, Vulkan and Metal backends.…
    comment by saidinesh5 · 2022-08-03 · in Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
  7. https://github.com/google/angle angle have vulkan backend
    comment by kimown · 2021-11-01 · in Vulkan as an alternative to CUDA in scientific simulation software (2020)
  8. …mobile devices) they could just use ANGLE which will provide OpenGL ES support on top of vulkan https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by asiachick · 2021-01-31 · in RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V
  9. …is, since both Chrome and Firefox use ANGLE as their default WebGL backend (at least on Windows). https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by CraftThatBlock · 2020-10-04 · in Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio
  10. …performance numbers. It’s made to run WebGL though so strong incentive to have good performance. https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by surfmike · 2020-09-09 · in Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) performance better than expected
  11. …for native apps as well as web apps. There's also Mozilla's gfx-rs[3] in the same space. [1] https://github.com/google/angle [2] https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn [3] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
    comment by modeless · 2019-09-12 · in WebGPU and WSL in Safari
  12. …layer). looking forward seeing ANGLE getting Metal backend, which been just a promise so far. [1] https://github.com/google/angle [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/angle [3] https://think-silicon.com/products/software/glove/ [4]…
    comment by Svoka · 2019-04-01 · in OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly
  13. …Microsoft Direct X on all Windows machines (by all mainstream browsers through the Angle project https://github.com/google/angle ).
    comment by IvanK_net · 2019-04-01 · in OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly
  14. …through GLOVE[1] as well as Google's own ANGLE[2]. [1]: https://github.com/Think-Silicon/GLOVE [2]: https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by Lorkki · 2019-03-26 · in Fuchsia OS Introduction
  15. …if an upcoming android version required Vulkan suppport and Android shipped with ANGLE for OpenGL. https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by hornetblack · 2019-03-26 · in Fuchsia OS Introduction
  16. …Edge doesn't use OpenGL either so not sure why you thought browsers were using OpenGL on Windows. https://github.com/google/angle
    comment by tokyodude · 2018-11-02 · in Introducing Zink: OpenGL on Vulkan
  17. …that needs to be ported to. What's going to wind up happening is more software like ANGLE ( https://github.com/google/angle ), MoltenVK ( https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK ), and gfx-rs ( https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx and…
    comment by lambda · 2018-06-06 · in Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
  18. Ah yes, you are right, WebGL shaders are translated first to GLSL or HLSL with a lib like ANGLE ( https://github.com/google/angle ). And that source is then send on to the drivers which compile it again to assembler for the graphic card.…
    comment by coffeeaddicted · 2017-11-02 · in The Book of Shaders
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    Google ANGLE – Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine
    story by joubert · 2017-01-03 · 0 comments