WebGPU support

[luruke]

Wondering, is there any plan to support WebGPU in the future?
Or it's more likely that it's going to be a totally new project / fork?

[sebavan]

Would be great to have it here :-) i definitely need to find time for it.

[frguthmann]

Might be interested, not sure how complicated that is :)

[sebavan]

A bit :-) cause it is stateless so might have completely different kind of caching to do :-)

[frguthmann]

Right, I've been meaning to give a hand because I use SpectorJS literally everyday. It's kind of hard to figure out a way to start, this is probably not the best one though...

[sebavan]

Yeahhhhhh, might be a tough one but we could do it at several people :-)

Basically there is 2 parts, the backend capturing and recording states, and the front displaying it. I would say at firts if we could have all the backend, then we ll see for the front. I have rewritten some of it in react and once all done it should be way easier for external contribs.

[frguthmann]

Definitely interested in understanding more about the backend and how you guys catch the different calls. Do not hesitate to ping me if you think there is something I can do. (No promises though :p)

[sebavan]

Send me a message at sevan@microsoft.com and I can organize us a quick skype call if you want ?

Would love to work on it as a community project.

[frguthmann]

Will do :)

[sebavan]

Closing for now as this will be in another repo/tool for the best ;-)

[kohakukun]

May I ask which repo? If already created 😄

[sebavan]

not yet but the technique will need to be quite different :-)

[kohakukun]

Still interested at developing it as a community project? I would be interested

[sebavan]

Most definitely, i ll start in about a month if everything goes well :-) I ll ping you then

[frguthmann]

Can't wait to see what you're brewing. Pix works really well with WebGPU but we could definitely use a SpectorJS level kind of tool as well :).

[kohakukun]

@sebavan Just a friendly reminder if you have the bandwidth to start the WebGPU tool and want a helping hand (sorry to be using this channel, I didn't find another channel)

[sebavan]

I definitely want to start it cause it would be awesome :-)

As we are currently close to launch the latest release of Babylon I do not have a lot of free time to work on it at the moment but I ll ping you as soon as I start :-)