canvas2D vs go-sdl2

canvas2D

Update Canvas 2D API (by fserb)

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go-sdl2

SDL2 binding for Go (by veandco)

Game development Go Binding Sdl2 maintainer-wanted

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canvas2D		go-sdl2
	Project
2	Mentions	3
128	Stars	2,124
-	Growth	1.3%
7.1	Activity	6.9
2 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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canvas2D

Posts with mentions or reviews of canvas2D. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-10.

[WIP] Made a 3-D software rasterizer from scratch in JavaScript
2 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 10 Jul 2022

I've seen this proposal for the 4x4 matrix. People are trying to make it happen but at the moment it's listed among the Parked/Future Ideas so I'm not holding my breath.
It's always been you, Canvas2D
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2022

Look the proposal's still here!
https://github.com/fserb/canvas2D/blob/master/spec/perspecti...
If you raise an army of angry webdevs to yell at other browser implementers, I would be so very happy.

go-sdl2

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-sdl2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.

C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2023
"Dr. Kobushi’s Labyrinthine Laboratory" powered by Ebitengine has been released on Steam
2 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

An even simpler option (not a full engine) is using SDL2 bindings.
3D graphics library
10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Aug 2022

Fair enough! There are Go bindings for sdl here, and bindings for RayLib here. Beyond that, everything go game-related that I know of is a game engine.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing canvas2D and go-sdl2 you can also consider the following projects:

BezierInfo-2 - The development repo for the Primer on Bézier curves, https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo

raylib-go - Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.

Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

design-reviews - W3C specs and API reviews

Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

Leaf - A game server framework in Go (golang)

Pygame - 🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.

uPlot - 📈 A small, fast chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars

go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.