^ _[hectic-rs] - Rust/wgpu/specs re-write of hectic by [@expenses]_

wgpu-0.5 release happened! See the [changelog][wgpu-0-5].

It's based on `gfx-hal-0.5` (which was covered in the [March newsletter][gfx-march]),

uses in-house gfx-extras crates adopted from Rendy,

has many fixes and improvements, and totally changes the way passes are recorded.

`wgpu` project got restructured by only leaving `wgpu-core` and `wgpu-types`

in the main ("core logic") repository.

`wgpu-native` is moved out into a [separate one][wgpu-native].

`wgpu-remote` got fully moved into mozilla-central as "gfx/wgpu_bindings"

(this is "gfx" in a general sense, not gfx-rs in particular).

The Web target (aka "wasm32-unknown-unknown") is now officially supported

by `wgpu-rs`! 🎉

@grovesNL wrote the announcement to [gfx-rs blog][wgpu-wasm-blog].

At the same time, @kvark was implementing support for WebGPU in Firefox

(Nightly only) with help of `wgpu`.

They published results of this milestone on [Mozilla Hacks][wgpu-in-firefox].

The combined efforts allowed all the `wgpu-rs` examples to be run

in Firefox Nightly on all platforms

(yes, even on Android, terms and conditions apply...).

Given the wide spectrum of uses for `wgpu` ("core"), it became most important

to be able to debug and reproduce visual issues, be it either the user's fault,

or wgpu implementations'.

To aid these scenarios, a new [API tracing infrastructure][wgpu-pr-tracing]

was built into the core.

It's now possible to replay user's `wgpu` workloads in a separate player

on an entirely different platform.

In gfx-rs land, @mistodon created a nice [series of tutorials][gfx-hal-tutorials]

for the gfx-hal API.

[wgpu-0-5]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v05-06-04-2020

[gfx-march]: https://rust-gamedev.github.io/posts/newsletter-008/#gfx-rs-and-wgpu-news

[wgpu-wasm-blog]: https://gfx-rs.github.io/2020/04/21/wgpu-web.html

[wgpu-in-firefox]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-firefox

[wgpu-native]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native

[wgpu-pr-tracing]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/619

[gfx-hal-tutorials]: https://www.falseidolfactory.com/projects/learning-gfx-hal

[hectic-rs]: https://github.com/expenses/hectic-rs

[@expenses]: https://github.com/expenses