nimgl vs vulkan

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nimgl		vulkan
	Project
2	Mentions	1
356	Stars	4
0.6%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.6
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months 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

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 2023-06-04.

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

I heard the nimgl version of vulkan doesnt run well on mac and its missing a huge amount of extensions functionality These are the latest bindings I know of: https://github.com/DanielBelmes/vulkan

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nimgl and vulkan 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.

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

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

windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.

nimqml - Qt Qml bindings for the Nim programming language

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

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.

boxy - 2D GPU rendering with a tiling atlas.

pixels - Toy support library for primitive graphics programming.