glow VS glad

Compare glow vs glad and see what are their differences.

glow

GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code (by grovesNL)

glad

Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs. (by Dav1dde)
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glow glad
9 43
1,054 3,462
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7.2 7.2
29 days ago 10 days ago
Rust C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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glow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-15.
  • rust game for web, gltf question
    2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 15 May 2022
    You can absolutely do WebGL. glow is a good place if you want to do the webgl stuff yourself. With wgpu you can as well, though it is mostly targeted to the upcoming WebGPU standard. I have seen many crates that are capable of gltf loading, but I haven't used any yet. Hence I can't reall recommend one. But gltf capability does not really have anything to do with rust. As long as you can read a file and translate it to your engines scene/entity structure, I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to load gltf files.
  • Recreating macOS’s Drift screensaver with Rust and Wasm
    4 projects | /r/rust | 30 Jan 2022
    Most of it is written in Rust and compiles to Wasm with WebGL/OpenGL bindings via glow. The settings panel is written in Elm and the whole project is compiled with Nix. There’s also a very basic native desktop app. I haven’t seen many examples of a complete setup like this, so hopefully this can serve as a template for anyone trying out a similar stack.
  • How to use OpenGL in Rust?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jan 2022
    If you want to target desktop, mobile and/or web: https://github.com/grovesNL/glow
  • Are there any big projects written in Rust without any use of unsafe code?
    10 projects | /r/rust | 17 Jan 2022
    A/B Street, which comprises a UI library, lots of data import pipelines, and traffic simulation. 100k LoC, the only unafe is to make system calls through glow
  • opengl bindings
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Nov 2021
    https://github.com/grovesNL/glow is used by wgpu for its OpenGL ES / WebGL backend
  • Shaders and Uniforms in pure SDL2?
    3 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 4 Jul 2021
    By the way, nowadays many projects use glow instead of glutin because of.. I think it's because glow works on wasm, in the web (as webgl).
  • Graphics Libraries?
    5 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 3 Jun 2021
    But then you have the only example which is more platform handling than anything else.
    5 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 3 Jun 2021
    But what glow actually does is highlighted on lines 66 to 123. This section is filled with gl.some_function() calls, which is the same on every platform.

glad

Posts with mentions or reviews of glad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glow and glad you can also consider the following projects:

glew - The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.

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

glew-cmake - GLEW(https://github.com/nigels-com/glew, source updated nightly) with Cmake and pre-generated sources

opengl-imgui-cmake-template - 👾 template repo for getting started with opengl together with imgui using cmake

ImGuizmo - Immediate mode 3D gizmo for scene editing and other controls based on Dear Imgui

LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

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

glm

OpenGL-Registry - OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenGL ES-SC API and Extension Registry

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.