Re: WebIDL future: Does the GPU for the Web CG/WG need anything?

Tuples and maps are of interest to us, see my comment there
<https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/324#issuecomment-512032848>.
However we are doing alright without them. I don't think we have a burning
desire to refactor any of our APIs to use [ [0, x], [1, y] ].
And we no longer have the one multiple-return case which we had then.

Another top issue is bitsets, but I think providing a better API would
require a JavaScript language feature (e.g. SymbolSet a la Java's EnumSet).
See #717 <https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/717>, though, for an IDL
feature that would be nice (but is not critical).
Note also I am pretty sure we would use `namespace` instead of `interface`
for things like `GPUColorWriteBits` (in that issue), if only namespaces
supported `const`.

Somewhat related, I wish we had a more unanimous resolution on
https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/842
which affects all of our integer types, not just bitsets.
This comment
<https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/842#issuecomment-584753518> and
other comments explain our position (which is unanimous among the people
working on the WebGPU spec who have considered this issue).
Even if there's no movement on the rule, I would still *really* like to see
the rule applied consistently, as explained here
<https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/842#issuecomment-668258289>.

This is everything I was able to find/remember. There may be other things
that we've run into and never filed issues about (and worked around).
Anyone please chime in if you have any.

Thanks for reaching out!
-Kai

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:12 AM Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear GPU participants,
>
> W3C is currently in discussion with the WHATWG Steering Group to move
> the work on WebIDL to the WHATWG. As it was done for HTML and DOM, W3C
> is looking at the needs of the W3C Groups and Community to ensure a
> smooth transition.
>
> As part of that, I am interested to know if there is anything desired
> by the GPU for the Web Working Group/Community Group.
>
> The WebIDL draft is at:
>  https://heycam.github.io/webidl/
>
> Are there any feature request or issues that are relevant to the
> GPU for the Web community and would need extra attention?
>
> If you have other concerns about the transition, don't hesitate to let
> me know.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Philippe
> W3C Project Management Lead
>
>