nimgl vs pixels

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nimgl		pixels
	Project
2	Mentions	1
356	Stars	10
0.6%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Nim	Language	Nim
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

nimgl

Posts with mentions or reviews of nimgl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.

How can I add graphics to my nim program?
10 projects | /r/nim | 4 Jun 2023

Use nimgl. It supports Vulkan, OpenGL, ImGUI. I wouldn't use Vulkan cos it's very low level.
Nim for game development? What are some good frameworks & libs?
1 project | /r/nim | 9 Feb 2022

if you'd like something more low-level, there is nimgl which is quite similar to LWJGL

pixels

Posts with mentions or reviews of pixels. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.

How can I add graphics to my nim program?
10 projects | /r/nim | 4 Jun 2023

For 2D graphics, there is a simplified API made by Araq to draw pixels and text: Pixels

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nimgl and pixels you can also consider the following projects:

ludo - A libretro frontend written in golang

nim-csfml - Nim bindings to SFML multimedia/game library

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

windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.

magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization

vulkan - Vulkan C bindings for Nim

nimqml - Qt Qml bindings for the Nim programming language

shady - Nim to GPU shader language compiler and supporting utilities.

LWJGL - LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.

nuklearnim - Mirror of a thin Nim programming language for Nuklear GUI library

nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim