Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Aug 2008 21:31 UTC, submitted by Tony DeYoung
With the SIGGRAPH OpenGL BOF now past, Nick Haemel from AMD has written a blog post about OpenGL 3 and the reasoning behind the choices made. "After testing an approach that would have a drastic effect on the API, requiring complete OpenGL application rewrites and not introducing any of the long awaited features modern GPUs are capable of [...] GL 3.0 takes two important steps to moving open standard graphics forward in a major way. The first is to provide core and ARB extension access to the new capabilities of hardware. The second is to create a roadmap that allows developers to see what parts of core specifications will be going away in the future, also providing the OpenGL ARB with a way to introduce new features faster."
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Actually, the latest versions of DirectX are getting closer to a 3D-only API. Many DirectX parts have been deprecated (DirectDraw, DirectPlay) while others are getting replaced (DirectSound by XACT, DirectInput by the Windows message loop/XInput).
The only subsystem that really got attention since DirectX 8 is Direct3D. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the only subsystem left in future revisions (unless you use the old interfaces).