06-04-2018, 08:57 PM
It's really good to see them focus on incremental improvements rather than big revolutionary things to be honest; when they're rushing out features all the time quality control tends to dip a bit and these kinds of updates mean they're trying to stay on top of that.
Another big piece of news that I don't think they mentioned during the conference is that they're deprecating OpenGL support on macOS. This is honestly great news! Apple has never really prioritized OpenGL support whatsoever and their new graphics API Metal is leagues better than anything OpenGL could do (and also because it's theirs, they gotta take it seriously and support it). There's already a tool out there to convert Vulkan (an open source, cross-platform graphics api that's waaaaay better than opengl ever was) API requests to Metal requests. This is a great push for getting developers to stop using OpenGL and start using Vulkan to create cross-platform things.
""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
Another big piece of news that I don't think they mentioned during the conference is that they're deprecating OpenGL support on macOS. This is honestly great news! Apple has never really prioritized OpenGL support whatsoever and their new graphics API Metal is leagues better than anything OpenGL could do (and also because it's theirs, they gotta take it seriously and support it). There's already a tool out there to convert Vulkan (an open source, cross-platform graphics api that's waaaaay better than opengl ever was) API requests to Metal requests. This is a great push for getting developers to stop using OpenGL and start using Vulkan to create cross-platform things.
Interested in web development? Check out Super Mario Web Development. Wahoo!
""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster