In 2018 the project left the nursery and entered the adolescence period:

we established the gfx-portability project

we optimized the Metal backend and challenged MoltenVK for Dota2 performance

@fkaa successfully implemented DX11 backend during GSoC

we collaborated with Dolphin and RPCS3 to extend their support on Macs

we debated the philosophy of life abstraction level

abstraction level Szeged team ported WebRender over and got Firefox and Servo running on gfx-hal

Our API has settled to be at the lowest level, practically matching Vulkan semantics now, and became completely unsafe. To compensate for this, we have started WebGPU implementation with the idea of it becoming the lowest safe graphics abstraction that is a pleasure to use directly when targeting either native platforms or the future Web. Crossing fingers to tell you more about its progress in 2019 ;)

And for the logical conclusion, with help from relentless @omni-viral, we have finally published the new crates! This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning of adult life for the project. We are looking forward to see Amethyst, ggez, and potentially other community efforts taking advantage of our graphics abstraction.