> and Alyssa said something along the lines of "we are very far away" I lost hope a bit.
I think the quote you're thinking of was a reference to modern OpenGL and Vulkan support, not accelerated graphics in general. Older OpenGL is a lot easier to implement, and sufficient for an accelerated desktop and games like Minecraft.
Marcan and Alyssa have been saying for a while that we were on track to get GPU acceleration in the near-ish future.
I think the quote you're thinking of was a reference to modern OpenGL and Vulkan support, not accelerated graphics in general. Older OpenGL is a lot easier to implement, and sufficient for an accelerated desktop and games like Minecraft.
Marcan and Alyssa have been saying for a while that we were on track to get GPU acceleration in the near-ish future.