N23: wgpu (#692)

Author: kvark

content/news/023/index.md

@@ -201,6 +201,36 @@ projects. Pure Rust Vulkan allocators with support for erupt have been released.
 [erupt]: https://gitlab.com/Friz64/erupt
 [@Friz64]: https://blog.friz64.de/about
 
+### [wgpu] family re-union
+
+![wgpu family reunion](wgpu-family-reunion.svg)
+
+[wgpu] is a [WebGPU] implementation in Rust. It is safe, efficient,
+and portable: it can target both native and the Web.
+
+[Family reunion] is by far the biggest change in `wgpu` project since
+the inception. First, the Rust API of [wgpu-rs] was moved to the main
+[wgpu] repository. Second, the whole base was relicensed under MIT/Apache2.
+
+[gfx-hal] - the Vulkan Portability-like graphics API abstraction -
+was detached from the project. Instead `wgpu` got its own in-house unsafe
+abstraction called "wgpu-hal" developed within the [wgpu] repository.
+
+The team released [wgpu-0.9] right before this transition, to give the new
+graphics infrastructure more time to take shape. At the time of writing,
+supported backends on the new HAL include Vulkan, Metal, and OpenGL ES3.
+
+Finally, the testing infrastructure received a major upgrade. It started
+rendering the examples on the available adapters and compraring the results
+with reference images.
+This includes automatic testing using software adapters on CI.
+
+[wgpu]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
+[wgpu-rs]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs
+[gfx-hal]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
+[wgpu-0.9]: https://crates.io/crates/wgpu/0.9.0
+[Family reunion]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/milestone/9?closed=1
+
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