{"id":230725,"date":"2024-07-08T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230725"},"modified":"2024-07-08T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T03:46:32","slug":"a-decade-of-metal-the-early-years-2014-2019-metal-by-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230725","title":{"rendered":"A Decade of Metal: The Early Years (2014\u20132019) \u2013 Metal by Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2014, when Apple introduced the Metal graphics API, the landscape of computer graphics APIs was dominated by long-established standards like OpenGL. Seismic shifts were afoot, however, with the announcement of DirectX 12 a few months prior and the initiative that would produce Vulkan starting to take shape. These parallel efforts signaled a significant shift away from the accumulated cruft of 20+ years of OpenGL and other APIs born during the fixed-function era of GPUs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/metalbyexample.com\/a-decade-of-metal-early-years\/\">A Decade of Metal: The Early Years (2014\u20132019) \u2013 Metal by Example<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, when Apple introduced the Metal graphics API, the landscape of computer graphics APIs was dominated by long-established standards like OpenGL. Seismic shifts were afoot, however, with the announcement of DirectX 12 a few months prior and the initiative that would produce Vulkan starting to take shape. These parallel efforts signaled a significant shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230726,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230725\/revisions\/230726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}