Why “OpenGL” is being discussed
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That feature you mentioned was added by the Delphi team in support of closures. They way they developed it was jankey IMO, as it creates an interface behind the scenes and popul…
by sysrpl · Oct 18, 2026
Who cares about opengl or d3d or hell even apis or standards in general at this point. Apple has a trillion dollars a second to spend on tokens, I'm sure they can manage. Same f…
by bergheim · Oct 18, 2026
> Angle is OpenGL ES In practice this is sufficient for the overwhelming majority of apps. Apple never went past GL 4.1 on the desktop side, and doesn't support most of the inte…
by swiftcoder · Oct 18, 2026
That's true, but I'm sorry, telling them to test it themselves every time a new release comes out because "I can't comment on known issues or on whether or when a fix might ship…
by modeless · Oct 18, 2026
> The general Apple software quality decline seems to be accelerating. This is not the first time OpenGL got broken and fixed later. This is why software testing exists. I have…
by bayindirh · Oct 18, 2026
To calibrate, we're talking about an OpenGL bug in pre-release software.
by andsoitis · Oct 18, 2026
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OpenGL is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering. Read more on Wikipedia