<story><title>Metal for IntelliJ Platform</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2020/11/metal-for-intellij-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Why is Apple &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; dead set on having their own special graphics API? Surely it would be better for everyone (even them) if they just adopted Vulkan like literally every other platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpush</author><text>&amp;gt; like literally every other platform?&lt;p&gt;What other platforms? The only ones I see adopting Vulkan are Desktop Linux and some newer Androids. The first effectively doesn&amp;#x27;t even matter.</text></comment>
<story><title>Metal for IntelliJ Platform</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2020/11/metal-for-intellij-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Why is Apple &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; dead set on having their own special graphics API? Surely it would be better for everyone (even them) if they just adopted Vulkan like literally every other platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwielder2</author><text>Still? What would have caused them to not want to maintain control of their platform?</text></comment>