I'm currently learning WebGL and I found out that there are actually 2 variants of this api -> webgl and webgl2. So I would say that webgl2 is a newer version of the api, therefore it would be better to start with it. But I'm a bit confused now since most of the tutorials and documentations I've seen still uses webgl.

According to what I found there is not so much difference between them and that webgl2 has less support among browsers.

So I would be glad if someone could briefly explain to me if there is any big difference between them and if it would be a problem to switch from one to the other.

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

WebGL2 is backwards compatible with WebGL1, it builds upon it, most notably adding support for more texture formats and providing a bunch of functionality that was previously only available via extensions in WebGL1.