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I see Vulcan was mentioned in recent FlightSim Expo presentation but no mention of Metal.

Is this still in the roadmap?

Last year's presentation says Vulcan and Metal support.  Now Metal 2 is available.

https://developer.apple.com/metal/

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Metal support is still on the roadmap. The changes we make to support Vulkan will also make Metal possible, and, if Metal isn't released concurrently with Vulkan, it's planned to come shortly thereafter. (For values of "shortly" applicable to any software engineering project. ;) )

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