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It is going to ship soon in Chrome: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VomzP...

Lets see if it is really soon, as it was going to be Summer time 2022 really soon as well.

They still have WGSL semantics to sort out, and there are a couple of issues postponed for post MVP 1.0.

At least now Chrome Canary for Android has WebGPU support as well, no need to mess with Vulkan directly.

There's no ETA for when 1.0 of the spec is coming out that I've seen. Some browsers on some platforms are shipping code behind config options or origin trials. Might be a good guess that it will ship (enabled for end users) this year on first platforms, but hard to say how many years it will take to be broadly useable if you want to support all the big-3 browsers. WebGL 2 just recently made it there...

(And in FF nightly, it's more like "not enabled, no ETA" than "spotty")

All of the browser vendors are supportive, all had initial prototypes etc.

Speculation: The spec is still a Working Draft aka: comments welcome from anyone, may drastically change. Chrome already intends to ship soon. It's quite possible that Chrome is rushing ahead as usual even though the spec hasn't been fully finalized.