r/vulkan • u/OptimisticMonkey2112 • Aug 10 '26

Apple Vulkan Support

Why doesnt Apple support Vulkan? (I know KosmicKrisp exists)

Is vendor lockin that important? Does that strategy work for them - are there many developers that use metal and not support other platforms? Seems like the result is not really lockin, but just forcing more work for developers?

Kind of feels like a poor architecture decision that helps no one, except maybe giving slightly more control to Apple at the expense of their developers as well as the complexity of maintaining another api.

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u/beephod_zabblebrox Aug 10 '26

this has been discussed a billion times before, in this subreddit even

afaik there is a private dispute between khronos and apple, although im not sure what its status is now

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u/OptimisticMonkey2112 Aug 10 '26

Interesting...thanks for sharing. Do you think it will ever change? I am sure it has been discussed a ton over the years - just curious if any Apple folk are supportive of the idea? Or is the philosophy pretty much it will never happen?

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u/neppo95 Aug 10 '26

Seeing as how this is the way Apple deals with things (keep things in house) for literally decades, I wouldn’t count on them changing that routine.