go-sdl2 vs go-webgpu-examples

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go-sdl2		go-webgpu-examples
	Project
3	Mentions	2
2,124	Stars	25
1.3%	Growth	-
6.9	Activity	3.4
8 days ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
C	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

go-webgpu-examples

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

My first Go program: spinning 3d wireframe cube
1 project | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2023
3D graphics library
10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Aug 2022

If you decide to go with it and want to learn it I would recommend you to refer https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ and refer to Go code for the tutorials here https://github.com/rajveermalviya/go-webgpu-examples/tree/main/learn-wgpu/beginner (WIP, I am in the process of making complete doc)

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.

vulkan - Vulkan API bindings for Go programming language

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

go-bgfx - bgfx for Go