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[draconus]

6 hours ago, kerlcat said:

But keep silent after so many yrs?

How silent is this when they report the work every year for you? Wags answered about Vulkan like 5 days ago:

6 hours ago, kerlcat said:

Couldn’t the massage be estimated windows like 1H 2025? Q4 2025?

No, it couldn't.

The roadmap is probably just around the corner.

Edited January 24 by draconus

[Zebra1-1]

13 hours ago, kerlcat said:

I disagree. No one said we need an exact date. ED publicly announced its effort on Vulkan from 2019 if not earlier. Now it’s 2025. Nobody said it’s easy for graphic engine’s overhaul. But keep silent after so many yrs? Couldn’t the massage be estimated windows like 1H 2025? Q4 2025?
Many companies would maintain a roadmap which could be changed time to time. ED did similar way with its 202X and beyond. Keeping silent is opposite to Wag’s message from his recent video which I like a lot. 
And it’s not shame to share what kind of major challenges blocking the road and an updated target time line. That’s called transparent and often adapted by some major companies. 

"But keep silent after so many years"

To be fair, they have provided several updates. IIRC, there was a newsletter about it last year and it was in the previous Q&A. It's also been talked about during other interviews and looks like it may have been planned for initial release in 2023/2024 (Jan Newsletters). I think this is just one of those things where it is near impossible to be any more specific, given how low level the API is. 

 

[MAXsenna]

4 hours ago, Zebra1-1 said:

It's also been talked about during other interviews and looks like it may have been planned for initial release in 2023/2024 (Jan Newsletters). I think this is just one of those things where it is near impossible to be any more specific, given how low level the API is

Pretty sure they damn well gonna do it right, and that seems to have taken more time than anticipated.