is this still relevant

[leyloe]

it seems that there is a cpp made by dawn

[eliemichel]

This is a fair question to ask, but I believe it is still relevant. The C++ wrapper provided by Dawn is only compatible with Dawn's specific implementation and its custom version of webgpu.h. This repository intends to provide a C++ wrapper that is compatible with any implementation of WebGPU (at least also with wgpu-native).

Ideally all implementation of WebGPU will provide a machine-readable version of their custom extensions (formatted like webgpu.yml, see #15) and this wrapper will be able to generate webgpu.hpp from that rather than by parsing the non-standard version of webgpu.h that Dawn or others provide.

I know that there is more communication around Dawn, it is more active and sees probably more usage than wgpu-native, but IMHO I believe there is some danger in giving up on the idea that WebGPU is a standard with multiple implementations; the ecosystem of tool built around WebGPU should take care of not tying things up too tightly around Dawn specificities!

[ijsf]

This is a fair question to ask, but I believe it is still relevant. The C++ wrapper provided by Dawn is only compatible with Dawn's specific implementation and its custom version of webgpu.h. This repository intends to provide a C++ wrapper that is compatible with any implementation of WebGPU (at least also with wgpu-native).

As a user of this project, I just wanted to give a heads up here as well. Projects like these are important so open standards don't end up coming from just a single vendor. All in all, excellent work.