MoltenVK
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MoltenVK is a software library which allows Vulkan applications to run on top of Metal on Apple's macOS, iOS, and tvOS operating systems. It is the first software component to be released for the Vulkan Portability Initiative, a project to have a subset of Vulkan run on platforms lacking native Vulkan drivers.
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Developer(s) | The Brenwill Workshop Ltd., Khronos Group |
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Initial release | February 26, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-02-26)[1] |
Stable release | |
Repository | github |
Written in | Objective-C++, Objective-C, C++, C[3] |
Operating system | macOS, iOS, tvOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Wrapper library[3] |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | moltengl |
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There are some limitations compared with a native Vulkan implementation.[4]