I'm not too sure about that, what about the support for DX12 in WSL? Can't deploy that to production outside WSL right now as far as I'm aware, unless they add DX12 support to azure Linux vms...
Given that the main use case is stuff like running machine learning tools, the only people directly targeting DX12 on WSL will probably be framework/library developers, who might want to add DX12 as one of the graphics systems they support. If that's the case, the vast majority of developers won't notice any difference other than more software supporting graphics acceleration when run in WSL (or, another way of looking at it, when Linux is running on the WSL "hardware"/"platform").
Sure, nothing stops you from targeting DX12 directly in your application code, but why would you do that? At that point, you'd just target Windows since your users would have to be running it anyway.
> I'm not too sure about that, what about the support for DX12 in WSL?
It's an implementation detail -- they're exposing the Windows graphics driver to the Linux system with the most minimal amount of translation and overhead.
You could code directly to it in your Linux application code but it makes no sense to do that. You'd be literally writing a Linux application that can only run under Windows -- the smallest market ever proposed. Instead library/framework developers will add it as another target to improve performance in WSL for generic Linux applications.
wildmusings|5 years ago
Sure, nothing stops you from targeting DX12 directly in your application code, but why would you do that? At that point, you'd just target Windows since your users would have to be running it anyway.
wvenable|5 years ago
It's an implementation detail -- they're exposing the Windows graphics driver to the Linux system with the most minimal amount of translation and overhead.
You could code directly to it in your Linux application code but it makes no sense to do that. You'd be literally writing a Linux application that can only run under Windows -- the smallest market ever proposed. Instead library/framework developers will add it as another target to improve performance in WSL for generic Linux applications.