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Did you consider using WebGPU, or creating a bridge between WebGPU / WebGL for this? Also, have you considered deploying on Cloudflare Pages [1] (unlimited bandwidth) instead of netlify?

[1] - https://pages.cloudflare.com/

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Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451

oh wow, i had no idea. thanks!

I did consider WebGPU but I couldn't find many advantages for the current use case.

Yes I'm planning to move to the edge as soon as it's in a later stage of development

The biggest difference for you is probably that WebGPU has compute shaders and WebGL does not, they are pretty nice if you want to implement more complex algorithms.

That's true. But current shaders are very simple. The big issue I have with WebGPU is that it's still not supported by all browser (see Safari) while WebGL is nowadays everywhere.

I work on a MacBook and I need to make sure that at least Safari (soooo many issues/ bugs/ specific behaviours it drives my crazy) works fine

I don't have a mac, but my understanding is that Safari Technology Preview [0] has WebGPU support (might need a change a setting too).

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/

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