glow
GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code (by grovesNL)
wgpu
Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api. (by gfx-rs)
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| glow | wgpu | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 195 | |
| 1,067 | 10,846 | |
| - | 4.1% | |
| 7.2 | 9.9 | |
| 15 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
glow
Posts with mentions or reviews of glow.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-15.
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rust game for web, gltf question
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.
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Recreating macOS’s Drift screensaver with Rust and Wasm
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.
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How to use OpenGL in Rust?
If you want to target desktop, mobile and/or web: https://github.com/grovesNL/glow
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Are there any big projects written in Rust without any use of unsafe code?
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
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[Media] Spinning triangle using Nalgebra and Glow OpenGL bindings. Followed WebGL Programming Guide and Glow example.
https://github.com/grovesNL/glow/blob/main/examples/howto/src/main.rs :)
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opengl bindings
https://github.com/grovesNL/glow is used by wgpu for its OpenGL ES / WebGL backend
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Shaders and Uniforms in pure SDL2?
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).
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Graphics Libraries?
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.
wgpu
Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
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GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes
Oh look it's subgroup support landing last week: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5301
- 3D and 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine
- Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
- Linux version of Warp terminal is here
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
And wgpu has been doing this for years. Things like descriptor indexing are not exposed to the web but used by Rust (mostly) engines on native.
https://wgpu.rs/
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New Renderers for GTK
If they used https://wgpu.rs/ they would get directx and metal for free (:
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Show HN: WebGPU Particles Simulation
IIRC it was delayed multiple times. I think the first intent to ship from chrome was before 100 but they kept pushing it off. Firefox still does not support it. There are projects like wgpu[0] that wrap provide a higher level API and I have used some projects using it with no issues. WFIW I didn't see any issue with OP's demo either.
[0] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
- Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
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How do I become a graphics programmer? – A guide from AMD Game Engineering team
wgpu, the Rust WebGPU implementation is the bee's knees. https://wgpu.rs/ You can use it beyond the web.
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There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig?
There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig? wgpu.rs is an abstraction on top of Vulkan, Metal, DirectX, etc...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing glow and wgpu you can also consider the following projects:
glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
glium-sdl2 - An SDL2 backend for Glium
rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
glad - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in 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.
learn-opengl - Learn OpenGL lessons in Rust
Rust-CUDA - Ecosystem of libraries and tools for writing and executing fast GPU code fully in Rust.