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Comment by brookman64k

8 months ago

Just to avoid potential confusion: WebGPU and WGPU are different things.

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slimsag  8 months ago

(a) WebGPU -> Specification or browser API

(b) WGPU, gfx-rs/wgpu, wgpu.rs -> Rust crate implementing WebGPU

(c) wgpu -> the prefix used by the C API for all WebGPU native implementations.

(d) 'wgpu' -> a cute shorthand used by everyone to describe either (a), (b), or (c) with confusion.

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