ash VS wgpu

Compare ash vs wgpu and see what are their differences.

ash

Vulkan bindings for Rust (by ash-rs)
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ash wgpu
13 193
1,666 10,586
3.4% 5.6%
8.1 9.9
about 17 hours ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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ash

Posts with mentions or reviews of ash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.
  • Going beyond build.rs: introducing cargo-px
    2 projects | /r/rust | 2 May 2023
    If you want to automate the creation of certain code that will be nested under the src directory, and committed into source control, there are a variety of ways to do that. One option is to create a sub-crate in your project that does the code-gen and you can run it as needed. The ash project is an example of this.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (16/2023)!
    15 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2023
    There is also [Vulkano](https://github.com/vulkano-rs/vulkano). It has a safe high level api and lower level layers, all the way down to [ash](https://github.com/ash-rs/ash) which is more or less raw vulkan. It's more explicit and verbose than [wgpu](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) though, so maybe try wgpu first and see how you like it.
  • go-vk - A new Go language binding for Vulkan
    5 projects | /r/vulkan | 6 Mar 2023
    This is great, of all the vulkan go bindings I have been waiting for one that uses vk.xml to generate the bindings, because it's the only viable way to keep the bindings up-to-date. (fyi the popular [ash-rs](https://github.com/ash-rs/ash) is created the same-way).
  • State of GPGPU in 2022
    12 projects | /r/rust | 27 Apr 2022
    Nice and simple. Its quite portable too. But simplicity and ease of use come with some limitations. Ash is much more complex but can extract every bit of power from your card if needed. Wgpu-rs github comes with many examples and you can find a really nice tutorial here
  • I made a video with every single debug render on a pathtracer I'm programming in Rust
    5 projects | /r/programming | 30 Nov 2021
    low level vulkan bindings
  • How to render text with rust?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 31 Oct 2021
    Glium and ash provide low level access to different common graphics api's. I'm sure there's a good directx-11/12 bindings as well but I'm unfamiliar with what people use.
  • Pilka: Personal live-coding shader editor
    3 projects | /r/rust | 1 Sep 2021
    This project was inspired by the Bonzomatic, KodeLife and others, as well as in educational purposes to learn Vulkan using ash.
  • gfx-rs ecosystem releases v0.8
    3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Apr 2021
    The closest thing to vulkan afaik is literally vulkan bindings, iirc I've seen the ash (https://github.com/MaikKlein/ash) crate recommended for that, but that is fairly unsafe.
  • Best Vulkan wrapper / low-level graphics library?
    4 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 9 Feb 2021
    I would not recommend vulkano, I would recommend ash, most serious projects that are targeting only vulkan (ie not using gfx-hal), use ash. Vulkano makes some odd decisions and their build process is a pain, if it works in c++, you might not be able to get it to work in Vulkano. Ash has the same exact dependencies you would need in a C++ rust project (ie just the vulkan sdk on windows), and most low level conversion stuff to rust (enums) is already done.

wgpu

Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ash and wgpu you can also consider the following projects:

vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

glow - GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code

rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

learn-wgpu - Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.

Rust-CUDA - Ecosystem of libraries and tools for writing and executing fast GPU code fully in Rust.

glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.

wgpu-rs - Rust bindings to wgpu native library

gfx - [maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.

Silk.NET - The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about.