glfw VS vulkan

Compare glfw vs vulkan and see what are their differences.

glfw

Go bindings for GLFW 3 (by go-gl)
OpenGL glfw-bindings GLFW Gamedev Golang Go
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vulkan

Vulkan API bindings for Go programming language (by vulkan-go)
Vulkan vulkan-api golang-bindings Graphics Framework Golang android-ndk
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glfw vulkan
3 2
1,505 737
1.2% 1.2%
6.7 0.0
about 1 month ago 9 months ago
C C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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glfw

Posts with mentions or reviews of glfw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
  • Understand how to use C libraries in Go, with CGO
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Oct 2023
    And this is how https://github.com/go-gst/go-gst, https://github.com/go-gl/glfw, and even https://fyne.io/ are using system libraries to propose a lot of functionalities.
  • 3D graphics library
    10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Aug 2022
    I'm looking for something that's relatively low-level (not a game engine) but preferably abstracts some of the boilerplate away and is cross-platform. Something like go-bgfx would have been perfect for me, but it has been long abandoned. The only real remaining option appears to be the glfw-bindings go-gl/glfw. Otherwise, I could make use of cgo to wrap some c/c++ code myself. I'm somewhat hesitant to go with glfw, because openGL isn't supported on all platforms (but realistically, I'm not going to publish anything that needs to go on mobile), and doesn't support raytracing, which I eventually want to mess around with too.
  • What libraries would allow drawing windowless overlays?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 31 Aug 2021

vulkan

Posts with mentions or reviews of vulkan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glfw and vulkan you can also consider the following projects:

gl - Go bindings for OpenGL (generated via glow)

hashcat - World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility

mathgl - A pure Go 3D math library.

ttf-renderer - Glyph rendering in Go + Vulkan via stencils.

goxjs/gl - Go cross-platform OpenGL bindings.

fauxgl - Software-only 3D renderer written in Go.

goxjs/glfw - Go cross-platform glfw library for creating an OpenGL context and receiving events.

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

go-wlroots - Go binding for wlroots

vkm - A simple Go language matrix and vector math module, targeting 3D graphics.

SPH-Fluid-Simulation - A multi-threaded particle-based solver, Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics, for the Navier-Stokes equation

Vulkan - Examples and demos for the new Vulkan API

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