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Author here, I wrote at the begining of the text that it isn't fully supported yet :)

"WebGPU was first published in mid-2021 (super new!), so it isn’t fully supported on browsers (also shows how you can enable it) yet".

My main goal is to bring this new technology into attention, I don't intend nor do I have any incentive to recommend people using it in production. Sorry if that wasn't completely clear.

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What do you mean by "Published in mid-2021"? It's still in draft and is undergoing changes. From the Github repo it seems the first (presumably public) commits were in 2019: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/commit/c325725d5e2b50dcd9e5...

Edit: I imagine it comes from here: https://www.w3.org/standards/history/webgpu - the first time a working draft was published on the w3c site, instead of only at the github repo, was then. But is it a meaningful date to mention?

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