On Friday, 24 May 2019 at 08:42:48 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
Well, the main market I see for a software renderer is the
embedded market and server rendering. Making money with
development tools, components or frameworks is most likely only
possible in the B2B sector.
Indeed. Software that should be easy to port to new hardware,
like point-of-sale terminals, calling systems etc.
I guess server rendering means that you can upgrade the software
without touching the clients, so that you have a network protocol
that transfers the graphics to a simple and cheap client-display.
Like, for floor information in a building.
Or do you plan on support CPUs where there is no GPU available?
Currently we don't use a GPU, it's only CPU based. I think CPU
rendering has its merits and is underestimated a lot.
You are probably right. What I find particularly annoying about
GPUs is that the OS vendors keep changing and deprecating the
APIs. Like Apple is no longer supporting OpenGL, IIRC.
Sadly, GPU features provide a short path to (forced) obsoletion…
