amitayas
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Something interesting I found going through the gpui renderer code: it uses metal, direct3d on mac and windows but is using this lesser know hal called Blade for linux, which I am guessing uses vulkan. So, 2 questions: why not use Vulkan directly? Why not use blade/wgpu on all three platforms?
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Something interesting I found going through the gpui renderer code: it uses metal, direct3d on mac and windows but is using this lesser know hal called Blade for linux, which I am guessing uses vulkan. So, 2 questions: why not use Vulkan directly? Why not use blade/wgpu on all three platforms?