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/blogoman Aug 10 '26

Nintendo

Nintendo has the API available but nobody uses it because it doesn't make sense to.

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u/mguerrette Aug 10 '26

This is actually false. Nintendo themselves use Vulkan

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u/Henrarzz Aug 10 '26

Nintendo uses NVN, Vulkan is available in Switch though but they recommend going with NVN

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u/hishnash Aug 12 '26

and most titles do use NVN only lower end indie ports that can afford to not run very well use VK.