absulit
I wish my job was in something related to #webgpu. I think about it all the time. But I certainly wouldn't like to implement again what I already did in my library. It's like, ok I like to work in the innards of computer graphics, but I certainly wouldn't like to put my hands on Vulkan. I really like my library as a hobby. I work in my library so I can later make stuff with it, not necessarily webgpu but I love the topic, super interesting & thanks to it I was able to understand compute shaders.
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I saw a video yesterday about #threejs and how thanks to their agnostic approach to the renderer which is isolated, they were able to add new renderers like the #webgpu one. I was thinking how I don't do that in my library and also how that ship has sailed, if I wanted to do that for a different renderer in the future I wouldn't have any idea of what to do, which is kind of funny.

Meaning, my library is pretty stuck with webgpu, or as the kids say: coupled.

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If I wanted to support #webgl which I don't btw, I would probably have to rethink a few things, like my sanity.
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Related to my #webgpu library, I always find kind of funny and annoying that, every time I try to develop an app with it, I find that there are missing features, so I have to cancel the app and go back to my library and add the feature. This is good in a way because it's cool to know I have that power. I couldn't imagine myself needing a feature in threejs and try to add it without trying first to understand the code base, which would probably take weeks.
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Another cool thing about managing my library is the fact that until I started with it, I found the joy of rethinking, refactoring, remaking parts of the code base in favor of legitimate improvement. In the past I would certainly just destroy everything and start from scratch, which I think is a thing a lot of developers do, me included, just because we don't want to read another dev's code.

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Another cool things is that I've learned a lot about js these last few years. I know there's a lot more to learn, but I still recall there first iteration of my library, it was super slow, but it worked! And I thought that maybe something like C# could increase speed. It was basically the same, except the #javascript was slightly faster. The real issue was that I never understood #webgl, but it got fixed with #webgpu which makes a lot more of sense to me than webgl

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