glium VS LearnOpenGL

Compare glium vs LearnOpenGL and see what are their differences.

glium

Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language. (by glium)

LearnOpenGL

Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com (by JoeyDeVries)
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glium LearnOpenGL
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11 days ago 21 days ago
Rust C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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glium

Posts with mentions or reviews of glium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.
  • Cargo build feature issue: Building winit problem, says no features specified
    2 projects | /r/rust | 23 Mar 2023
    Which is blocked, waiting for glium to update: https://github.com/glium/glium/pull/2036
  • OpenGL crates: gl vs glow vs glium
    3 projects | /r/rust | 22 Mar 2023
    https://crates.io/crates/glium (8 months ago - 925 kB)
  • [Media] Visualizing scientific data in rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Sep 2022
    Hi rustaceans! I glued this prototype together with vtkio and glium. There are more features that are unsupported than supported at this point, but the code is here if you want to check it out: https://github.com/JeffIrwin/skillet
  • should i learn glium?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 12 Jun 2022
    Should i learn glium (https://crates.io/crates/glium)? i have some experience in opengl (C++) and i would like to use the opengl functionality in the Rust ecosystem.
  • How to abstract OpenGL for future use?
    4 projects | /r/opengl | 8 Feb 2022
    I can recommend https://github.com/glium/glium as a good, safe abstraction. There was a time when I wanted to learn shaders and write complex pipelines with several stages, this library allowed me to learn about the important objects and their responsibilities without having to program the very verbose chunks of code to initialize. I learned the following:
  • Where to find resources to learn OpenGL with Rust ?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 19 Jan 2022
    Glium is a Rust-y OpenGL wrapper, and its repository contains a discussion that should give you an idea whether this is what you want to use, as well as some tutorial.
  • Drew a torus in the browser using Rust + WASM
    5 projects | /r/rust | 26 Dec 2021
    If you don't know C++, don't let that deter you because if you can read Rust, you can read the C++ the author writes in the book. To interact with OpenGL I used glium; translating the C++ code to Rust/glium can be tricky though. The Rust equivalent to the linear algebra library the author uses (GLM) is nalgebra_glm.
  • 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.
  • Issues with glium
    2 projects | /r/rust | 24 Sep 2021
    I was following the glium tutorials and I thought that I could play around with the code and move most of the logic over into a struct similar to what is done in this wgpu tutorial. However when I try to do that I get an issue saying that a move occurred because my struct didn't implement the copy trait, although neither did the tutorial on wgpu, so I am a bit confused as to why it works in the wgpu code and not in my code.
  • Any recommended resources for beginning graphics with Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 22 Jul 2021
    glium: https://github.com/glium/glium/tree/master/book wgpu: https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/

LearnOpenGL

Posts with mentions or reviews of LearnOpenGL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glium and LearnOpenGL you can also consider the following projects:

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

raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

glutin - A low-level library for OpenGL context creation, written in pure Rust.

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

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

wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

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

sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers

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

SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

glad - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.