bevy-cheatbook VS wgpu-rs

Compare bevy-cheatbook vs wgpu-rs and see what are their differences.

wgpu-rs

Rust bindings to wgpu native library (by gfx-rs)
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bevy-cheatbook wgpu-rs
7 16
1,628 1,699
5.4% -
9.0 9.0
3 days ago almost 3 years ago
Rust Rust
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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bevy-cheatbook

Posts with mentions or reviews of bevy-cheatbook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.
  • The Bevy Foundation
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    I've been using Bevy recently so here are some thoughts on this:

    Firstly, the overall quality is high and seeing this attention being paid to the project's organization is another good sign.

    Documentation is not great great. The Bevy book runs out of content very quickly. The "Cheat Book" has additional useful information: https://bevy-cheatbook.github.io/. With these plus the examples I've been able to figure out everything I need, but it's slow going.

    I'm not 100% sold on ECS. It loses a lot of type safety and there doesn't seem to be any way to ensure cleanup of entities and their components.

  • New to Bevy, Migrating from Unity3D: Need Advice on 2D Game Dev Tools
    2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 22 Sep 2023
    You can see working examples of nearly everything you asked about in the Bevy Cheatbook
  • Survey: How have shader compilation messages been for you?
    2 projects | /r/bevy | 2 May 2023
    The biggest source of wasted time for me was finding out that my shaders which were working on native didn’t work on webgl. For one of the more perplexing error messages, I opened this issue in the cheatbook a while ago.
  • Bevy 0.5
    14 projects | /r/rust | 6 Apr 2021
    wasm mostly works :) There's a nice PR open on the cheatbook that documents the process quite well that you can work off of.
  • Orthographic projection with top left origin
    2 projects | /r/bevy | 13 Mar 2021
    Great! Are you okay if I submit this to the Unofficial Bevy Cheatbook? This question comes up pretty frequently and this is a great little snippet.

wgpu-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-30.
  • gfx-rs ecosystem releases v0.8
    3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Apr 2021
    Naga-based shader infrastructure has been growing and capturing more ground. It has reached an important point where SPIRV-Cross is not just optional on some platforms, but even not enabled by default. This is now the case for Metal and OpenGL backends. Naga path is easier to integrate, share types with, compile, and it’s much faster to run. Early benchmarks suggest about 2.5x perf improvement over SPIRV-Cross for us.
    3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Apr 2021
    wgpu-rs (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs) is probably closer to what you're looking for, it's a "high level wrapper" over wgpu-core (Which implements "WebGPU", an upcoming browser API for graphics using gfx-rs, and AIUI "implements" means this is what a browser might use to actually call a graphics API when javascript uses webGPU, although if you're compiling for wasm it could just call the browser APIs). It can run natively, ignore the fact it has "Web" in the name
  • GPU compute shader for SHA256 using Rust!
    3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Apr 2021
    rust-gpu) is used for compiling a compute shader written in Rust to SPIR-V. wgpu-rs is used natively for running the GPU computation.
  • GPU programming .. SYCL
    2 projects | /r/rust | 15 Apr 2021
  • Bevy 0.5
    14 projects | /r/rust | 6 Apr 2021
    For web assembly there is the unofficial bevy_webgl2 plugin. Official bevy web assembly support would probably use the wgpu webgl backend, which still needs some work, and is currently untested in bevy.
  • Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2021
    We let wgpu https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs handle our graphics backend abstraction, so our OpenGL support will come whenever they implement and release it. Currently, it seems to be a WIP.
  • Last big wgpu-rs example shaders are fully ported to WGSL now, and validated in it
    6 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 30 Mar 2021
    Same as with GLSL, isn't it? What we do in wgpu-rs examples, and that's something I expect to see more widely, is having an integration test that just parses all the WGSL in the project and reports errors. Ideally though, we'd have a set of IDE plugins to do the parsing and report errors right where you type the code. We'd appreciate any help to get these started!
    6 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 30 Mar 2021
  • Newbie questions on design patterns in Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 21 Mar 2021
    Also you could use an existing cross-platform graphics library, e.g. wgpu-rs. It supports Vulkan, Metal, DirectX, OpenGL and WebGPU. Oh and it seems to allow switching backends at compile-time via the WGPU_BACKEND environment variable, so maybe check out how they're doing it.
  • OpenGL in Rust
    4 projects | /r/rust | 22 Feb 2021
    there is a lack of opengl development because opengl itself is beint phased out slowly. your best bet here is probably https://wgpu.rs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bevy-cheatbook and wgpu-rs you can also consider the following projects:

ash - Vulkan bindings for Rust

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

awesome-bevy - A collection of Bevy assets, plugins, learning resources, and apps made by the community

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

bevy_webgl2 - WebGL2 renderer plugin for Bevy game engine

gpuweb - Where the GPU for the Web work happens!

hash-shader - SHA256 WebGPU Compute Shader (Kernel) Written in Rust

rusty-shooter - [suspended] 3d shooter written in Rust using rg3d

bloom - The simplest way to de-Google your life and business: Inbox, Calendar, Files, Contacts & much more

veloren

simple-game - A personal collection of windowing/graphics/game code to get started quickly on games and graphical applications