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0 pointsYgg21y ago0 comments

Sure, it does have some benefits. Like lower energy consumption, I hear good things about JavaScriptCore (Safari's JS engine), that said, so many of the features are missing, and one part is it encroaching on the iOS apps territory.

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nwienert1y ago

The features missing thing was true years ago, but Apple significantly increased their investment in Safari about 3 years ago and it really gained ground. If you subtract all the Chrome-invented features, they aren't too far off.

troupo1y ago

> so many of the features are missing, and one part is it encroaching on the iOS apps territory.

Be careful when listing those features. Many of those "encroaching" are Chrome-only non-standards

talldayo1y ago

And some of them, like WebGPU, are Khronos IP that Apple has no reason to object to except on an ideological and profit-maximizing basis. I wonder why Apple would deliberately avoid an API that might obsolete the requirement for games to use the App Store? Do you have any ideas?

troupo1y ago

> like WebGPU, are Khronos IP that Apple has no reason to object to except on

You do know that Apple is basically the original author of WebGPU, right (together with Mozilla)?

> I wonder why Apple would deliberately avoid an API that might obsolete the requirement for games to use the App Store

And your fantasy of Apple deliberately avoiding it is based on what exactly?

https://webkit.org/blog/9528/webgpu-and-wsl-in-safari/

https://webkit.org/blog/14879/webgpu-now-available-for-testi...

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nwienert1y ago

troupo1y ago

> so many of the features are missing, and one part is it encroaching on the iOS apps territory.

Be careful when listing those features. Many of those "encroaching" are Chrome-only non-standards

talldayo1y ago

troupo1y ago

> like WebGPU, are Khronos IP that Apple has no reason to object to except on

You do know that Apple is basically the original author of WebGPU, right (together with Mozilla)?

> I wonder why Apple would deliberately avoid an API that might obsolete the requirement for games to use the App Store

And your fantasy of Apple deliberately avoiding it is based on what exactly?

https://webkit.org/blog/9528/webgpu-and-wsl-in-safari/

https://webkit.org/blog/14879/webgpu-now-available-for-testi...

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse