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Correct, the Chrome team is responsible for killing the WebGL 2.0 Compute shaders effort with the reasoning WebGPU is just around the corner.

https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...

Now five years later, how well are those WebGPU compute shaders adoption going on?

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Not bad at all! WebGPU has compute shaders in the base spec, and it looks like 66%+ of internet traffic already supports it: https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu

By the way, if you are running any high-traffic websites you can donate your users' device data to web3dsurvey (with a simple JS snippet). I'm sure it will be appreciated.

Meaning anyone using ChromeOS, formerly known as The Web.

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