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This does not seem particularly in-depth.

Exactly. Seem OP found a fun new tool and decided to go all in.

The euphemisms also are questionable.

> Everything seems to be moving to the web; I can see how many desktop-related headaches (like installing software) will become irrelevant over time

I've heard this since dial up days.

We GPU may be a natural progression sure. But it's not the game changer. (Bad pun)

The most "game changing" feature of WebGPU might be that it finally brings compute shaders to the web. The other improvements are more or less incremental, but (compared to WebGL2) still badly needed and long overdue.

I'm the author, not the poster. Unzip is more of an intro summary of a concept so the title is indeed a bit misleading ;)

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