Unified graphics API with bgfx or SDL_GPU ? Vulkan, D3D, Metal ...combined!

[gnat]

bgfx: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

Recent buzz around the new SDL_GPU API.. but does seem a bit early.

• Announcement: https://x.com/icculus/status/1829523310994149828
• PR: libsdl-org/SDL@2e7d5bb
• Example code: https://github.com/TheSpydog/SDL_gpu_examples
• More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396260

Why?

• Uncomplicate and unify the graphics calls in Torque.
• Removes blockers for ports to more platforms.. phones, game consoles.
• Opportunity to replace the crappy/broken post effects with modern equivalents.
  • Unified shader languages like in Godot.
• Torque already uses SDL as a core library.

[Azaezel]

For what it's worth, the GFXDevice subsystem would tend to make either approach relatively viable as either route could simply consist of either wrappers or extensions thereof. That being said, we are in fact already looking at a unified shader language one of our contributors has been working on, so by all means, if you have time to elaborate on shortfalls beyond the rather obvious native hlsl/glsl calls we currently use we're all ears.