fauxgl vs go-sdl2

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fauxgl		go-sdl2
	Project
2	Mentions	3
845	Stars	2,126
-	Growth	1.3%
0.0	Activity	6.9
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Go	Language	C
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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fauxgl

Posts with mentions or reviews of fauxgl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.

3D graphics library
10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Aug 2022

there's https://github.com/fogleman/fauxgl, it's pretty fast, although it hasn't been updated in two years or so.
Very simple 3D Rendering libraries?
1 project | /r/rust | 8 Oct 2021

Something similar to https://github.com/fogleman/fauxgl but in rust.

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 fauxgl and go-sdl2 you can also consider the following projects:

go-webgpu - Go bindings for WebGPU, a safe & cross-platform GPU abstraction

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

glfw - Go bindings for GLFW 3

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

Vulkan - Examples and demos for the new Vulkan API

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

vulkan - Vulkan API bindings for Go programming language

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.

go-bgfx - bgfx for Go

d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.

go-webgpu-examples

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