OpenGL is a complex API that relies extensively ... programmers want to use something they're more familiar with, be it Python, C++, JavaScript, or any other language. SPIR is Khronos' solution.

Coinciding with SIGGRAPH 2011, the Khronos Group has released OpenGL 4.2, outlined exciting changes for WebCL, and detailed a new sensor processing API called StreamInput. OpenGL 4.2, which comes ...