> Author here, a bit cringe to see your WIP project posted here.

I'm confused; are you referring to GP's link to `gimli`, or your own repo in the OP?

My own repo in the OP :-)

Thanks! Can't forget your help in the process.

We've got this index of apps we're aware of, if you'd like to peruse: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webgpu-apps

A well-earned accolade! Thanks for helping Firefox make a WebGPU.

Member of Firefox's WebGPU team here. This is expected. Stable support for macOS is something we hope to ship soon! From the post:

> Although Firefox 141 enables WebGPU only on Windows, we plan to ship WebGPU on Mac and Linux in the coming months, and finally on Android.

Member of Firefox's WebGPU team here. I'm curious what extensions you're referring to!

We're hoping to ship on Windows stable in the next couple of Firefox releases. Other platforms should follow in the following year. If you want, I'd encourage you to try out WebGPU on Nightly on Linux and see if you run into any issues!

> The big advantage of Make is that it is probably already installed.

...unless you're on Windows, like me!

Make is installed on Windows, if you install Microsoft's C/C++ dev stack (typically via installing Visual Studio). They just use nmake instead of GNU make. They also include Cmake these days, as it's the common cross platform option.

> if you install Microsoft's C/C++ dev stack (typically via installing Visual Studio).

So I have to install this huge dependency just to use make, when my project is in Python?

Way easier to install just :-)

You wouldn't use GNU Make (the thing that comes for "default" on Linux) with Python either.

What a weird way to converse.

> You wouldn't use GNU Make (the thing that comes for "default" on Linux) with Python either.

But people do use Make all the time for Python projects - as a command runner. Pelican projects, for example, come with a Makefile to start the server, publish, etc.

The whole point of this submission is that many, many people use Makefiles not for incremental builds, but as a convenient place to store commonly used commands. And just is a better and simpler tool than make for that. If you're on Windows, it's a pain to install make, compared to installing just.

Busybox comes with a vestigial make. I wager git might. Those are both in winget.

Went to comments here exactly for this. I was delighted to see one of my favorite authors front-and-center as an incidental detail of an otherwise unrelated tech. demo.

I think it's addressed in the article:

> As you may know, we built a prototype for desktop PWAs a few years ago, and unfortunately user testing on our solution showed confusion and lack of perceived value. We didn’t release it because we didn’t have an approach that could meet the needs of power users without causing confusion among the broader user base.

it was live for awhile...don't know why they removed it for that reason. seems like your average user wouldn't know to use a PWA but the power users got screwed.

I haven't had time to dig into all of these demos, but the material looks _delightful_.

In case it's interesting to anyone, I did just go on a big bug-filing spree for Firefox. There are a handful of issues (that were already on the Firefox team's radar) to resolve before all of these playgrounds work as-is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webgpu-unleashe...