Opengl 20 «Genuine — 2025»

: Support for 16-bit and 32-bit floating-point precision in textures, enabling high dynamic range (HDR) rendering and more accurate physical simulations.

And a matching fragment shader:

The industry needed a way to write custom code that ran directly on the GPU. That need gave birth to OpenGL 2.0.

The conventional wisdom said OpenGL was dead because it was stateful . Unlike modern APIs (Vulkan, DirectX 12) where you explicitly control memory and threads, OpenGL acts like a butler with a photographic memory. You set a color, you draw. You set a texture, you draw. It remembers everything.