Patrycja 🔜 V43Jul 14, 2025
what the fuck do you mean "webgpu powered terminal"
where does the "web" part come from, huh??
Show threadPatrycja 🔜 V43Jul 14, 2025
nevermind tech reporters are morons
they saw "wgpu" on the project page ( a rust library for gpu rendering ) and they thought it means "webgpu"
Show threadJamie
@ptrc i don't think this rises to the level of moronic… wgpu is an actually an implementation of the webgpu api in rust, with the effect that a JS engine can provide webgpu support by wrapping those rust functions to be callable from js. it is also be a nice api to do graphics in rust directly, because webgpu is a nice api.
Jul 14, 2025 at 12:05pmWeb
Show threadPatrycja 🔜 V43Jul 14, 2025
@jamie i mean, the API is more-or-less the same, but saying it's WebGPU just misses the point entirely
Show threadbgergelyJul 14, 2025
@jamie @ptrc and also…. just don’t call your project wgpu if it has _nothing_ to do with webgpu
Show threadPatrycja 🔜 V43Jul 14, 2025
@bgergely0 @jamie .....why not? the letter "w" does not exclusively stand for "web"
Show threadJamieJul 15, 2025
@bgergely0 it has a lot to do with webgpu! it’s literally an implementation of webgpu!!
Show threadbgergelyJul 15, 2025
@jamie yeah I see that, I just meant that if it wasnt related to webgpu, then wpgu would be a terrible name. Since it is, the wgpu name makes sense, and so does the mistake in the original post
Show threadJamieJul 15, 2025
@bgergely0 oh sorry