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corysamayesterday at 8:19 PM1 replyview on HN

What does "MESA drivers" refer to here? I'm guessing it's not GPU drivers from https://mesa3d.org/


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throwup238yesterday at 9:12 PM

No those don’t work in most cloud VMs but MESA provides llvmpipe/softpipe implementations for Vulkan, OpenGL, etc. They’re software renders so relatively slow but work in headless VMs like Claude Code for web environments.