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Developers fear for Mac gaming as Apple deprecates OpenGL support

Developers fear for Mac gaming as Apple deprecates OpenGL support

6 years ago
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https://www.pcgamer.com/developers-fear-for-mac-gaming-as-apple-deprecates-opengl-support/

Apple held its annual WWDC event in San Jose today, and there was plenty of exciting news: macOS 10.14 Mojave, iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS 12, and more were announced. But while the latest macOS update has some great additions, like a night mode, one worrying change was included in the official documentation.

According to the official 'What's New in macOS' page, Apple is deprecating support for OpenGL and OpenCL with the release of macOS 10.14. If you're not familiar with developer terminology, deprecation means the feature will continue to work, but will not be supported moving forward and could break. Here's how Apple describes the change: