Explain me Metal like I'm 5 - iOS Conf SG 2020

[@nilesbrandon4217]

I’m 15 minutes in and this is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen.

[@Hub593]

As somebody new to swift, I found this extremely useful. Not sure why others in the comments seem to disagree.

[@alexnovikov1609]

The header is misleading but I’ve got an idea. Thank you!

[@douglasaraujo9763]

Now I understand the title: „explain like I‘m 5 coders studying at the same time“ :) Other that that, good video, thanks for the insights

[@SteigerMiller]

Great video. I was a little familiar with Metal so I could follow along and I liked how you talked about the organization. Thanks.

[@TomCarbon]

there are a lot of errors in this presentation… - I developed games for the 2600 and other 8 bits platforms, then 16/32, etc… and this was no way similar to the described nightmare!! - racing the beam was mainly to ensure the cycles taken by one frame would not exceed the time the frame is displayed, and display things in order right after the vbl - the tiling system used by consoles in the 80s wasn’t to faster display things on screen but to reduce memory usage with repetitive/shared tiles! - the 3d cards for consumers arrived in 1995/1996 (I had my first one in 1996), for instance motherboards got AGP in 1997 - etc… etc…

[@nickmack7282]

I got an idea, I'll make a conference where everybody has to talk into a potato mic

[@meru_lpz]

Please do! I can convince Kenny McCormick to come give a talk

[@healreadyleft]

Just checking because this comment is 1 year old. Is your life still so miserable that you don't have anything positive to say about the video?

[@nickmack7282]

@@healreadyleft yeah no, you got it backwards, I have less humor now, I believe I'm becoming more like you

[@darkexior]

Fantastic!!

[@itmandar]

Ok i felt like a 5yo until 12:00 then I had to grow up :(

[@freesuraj]

This is an extremely misleading title. The explanation is hard even for a seasoned swift developer to follow let alone a 5 year old boy. smh

[@deanolium]

It doesn't help that it's using his helper library extensively, so it actually obfuscates the basics of using Metal. Like it's probably easier to work with since it combines a few steps, but not a great way to explain the concepts of what's actually going on.

[@carlosmartins3297]

Jesus, I've studied Metal a long time ago, so I have a simple idea how it works. However, this video was harder and it has a misleading title. I am 28 years old, i must be stupid or something, it can't be.

[@J92-11B]

Someone... PLEASE help me I need to get Metal onto my Mac High Sierra

[@J92-11B]

@@UliTroyo I've spent hours searching the computer and can't find anything that says metal. I thought the same as you but then when running a program that requires metal, it does not run it.

[@ThomasSselate]

@@J92-11B There is nothing saying "metal" to look for. Metal is a way to program a macOS app. If you have a Mac, you will be able to run programs that use Metal. Nothing else to do.

[@J92-11B]

@@ThomasSselate I just bought a whole new computer. Apple sucks lol

[@J92-11B]

@@ThomasSselate thanks though

[@gaelenski_]

@@J92-11B People were a bit wrong here in the sense that you need a Metal ready GPU in order for Metal to be there on computers running up to High Sierra. My old 2011 MBP can run HS but it’s GPU cannot run the Metal API sadly. Anything that runs Mojave or later has a Metal GPU.

[@LaurentLaborde]

and then proceed to explain "alloy". meh...

[@ZoeSummers1701A]

How to write a title like you’re 5. /smh

[@ZoeSummers1701A]

They should start teaching you how to use English and grammar, rather than computer programming.