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I wonder how relevant Vulkan is going to be with Apple replacing OpenGL with Metal, Microsoft on DX12, Sony with GNMX, Nintendo with GX2.

Currently I see it only mattering on Android (if Google cares about it) and GNU/Linux.

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Apple has Metal and MS has DX12, but Apple, Microsoft, Google and others all have Vulkan. Like OpenGL, portability will be its strength.

Citation for Apple? After the last WWDC the situation for any other API on Mac/iOS seems hopeless. And no, that logo on a slide doesn't say much.

I watched all the relevant WWDC Metal talks and they look pretty serious to use it as their only graphics API, with OpenGL left in its current state for backwards compatibility.

Unless Apple proves me wrong by adding Vulkan support, I would say they were on the meetings more to learn how to improve Metal than anything else.

Would it be feasible to implement Vulkan atop Metal as a library without horrible performance? (Keeping in mind that the baseline of Apple's OpenGL is already fairly slow and behind the times. And Apple's customers already have fairly low expectations wrt gaming/etc.)

> Apple, Microsoft, Google and others all have Vulkan

Where?

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