This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.

bytepursuits@programming.dev · edit-2 6 days ago

This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.

zurohki@aussie.zone · 5 days ago

People weren’t forced to use Metal as it turns out - they just didn’t make games for Mac instead.

Apple tried to force people to use Metal, they just forgot that MacOS isn’t the iPhone and they don’t have enough weight in the desktop PC market to dictate terms like that.