I pulled gl.xml from the Khronos site, parsed the xml and created all the headers / exported functions / dispatch tables / private gl functions along with parsing the error and gl state structure definitions. I know its a big project and I don't expect to reach conformance but I wanted to make this for the community so OpenGL could remain supported on the Mac. One may ask why? Well I worked on the OpenGL framework for 10 years at Apple and I miss the simplicity of programming in OpenGL.

I have implemented OpenGL 4.6 on top of Mac OS Metal 2.3, I am sure there are other implementations out there but this is mine. In fact, that is what many of our developers use as their daily driver as well.Well its time to release at least a video on the progress of this project. The 13' MacBook Pro is what I typically use at work, and I’ve never had a problem with it. You may want something with more 3D graphics ‘oomph’ for your work, though. I use SketchUp on a humble Mac Mini (2018) and am happy enough with it. They already do so for all their mobile devices. And of course, Apple are well down the road towards building their own CPU/GPU in the future. Apple doesn’t support NVIDIA graphics cards any more, preferring chips from AMD or Intel instead for their stock builds.

If you want to use SketchUp on macOS, you are making a solid decision going with with any of today’s production models. But this will be a long, phased process that gives everyone in their developer community (like us) ample time to resolve any incompatibilities. Microsoft did the same thing with DirectX several years ago. SketchUp is built using OpenGL, and in the future, Apple does plan to migrate to their chosen successor for that, Metal. There is a bit more nuance to this situation than you may have been led to believe by Apple’s marketing.

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