Feature Request: PixiJS v8 Support

[lunarraid]

With the new massive rewrite of PixiJS 8, it seems a good amount of work will need to be done to support the new paradigm. Is this project still maintained, and if so, what would it take for v8 support? I might be interested in collaborating on this if there is interest.

[jnsmalm]

I have too much other stuff going on to do that I'm afraid. Also, I don't really see the need of PixiJS 8 I general, why would I go with that instead of v7? (At least in the areas I'm working with). I guess it's to support WebGPU, but not sure if there is anything else?

[lunarraid]

Mostly because v8 is a complete rewrite and they likely won't do any further major work on v7, so it will eventually code rot. There are a lot of optimizations in the new code and API. WebGPU is interesting because it offers some more possibilities. I also work with @pixi/react and that's being moved with a complete rewrite from v7, so I'll eventually have to make the transition myself. I get being busy though. I'm still working through a bunch of upgrades myself, but I was curious if there was interest here.

[jnsmalm]

Yes, I will definitely use v8 later. But right now v8 doesn’t really offer any new features (as far as I know) compared to v7. I’ll stick with v7 for a while more for the production apps. WebGPU works in all major browsers nowadays?

[lunarraid]

I'm not entirely certain on the browser support front, but one thing I am looking into is React Native's WebGPU rendering layer, which would allow me to stop needing to use a WebView with RN once I get it working.

[guillaumebrunerie]

PIXI v8 is a lot faster than v7 (and not only with WebGPU, also with the WebGL renderer). I guess this is the main reason why one would want to use it over v7. Especially when doing 3D, which is presumably more resource intensive than 2D in general, a faster renderer seems like a good argument to upgrade.