swiftshader VS nuklear

Is it really true that those bugs aren't getting fixed? There's a commit from July 18th to SwiftShader that seems to be addressing exactly the bug described in the blog post:

https://github.com/google/swiftshader/commit/4e401427f8dd799...

If your GPU does not support Vulkan you can still do some experimenting with a CPU renderer. I've used swiftshader a lot, it's a bit of a pain to compile, but once you manage to do so you can compile and run Vulkan code almost the same as if you had a compatible GPU. The performance of course is not great, but it's better than nothing.

swiftshader by Google (link):

You also don't get extensive support for various hardware for free – good luck running a Vulkan GUI on a pre-GCN AMD card or a sufficiently old NVIDIA one without a compatibility layer of sorts, which would require bothering with Vulkan Portability (i.e. missing certain Vulkan features due to it being implemented via an older API). The only alternative to that is SwiftShader (which would throw your extremely fast GUI aspirations right outta the window).

That's like saying no one needs a GPU anymore because Swiftshader exists.

Btw, if anyone's interested, here's the link to that branch: https://github.com/google/swiftshader/tree/legacy-d3d9

Yeah, there's still a fallback option through the use of Swiftshader if GPU accelerated vulkan isn't an option. If you use Vulkan for GUI, then it'll be fine to use Swiftshader, but if you're trying to play a game on Swiftshader, it'll likely struggle and probably fail.

The fix is https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/25205 to use soft renderer SwiftShader instead of DXD9 on low-end PCs

Google’s version is SwiftShader

There are SDL2 renderers for Nuklear, if you can live with the OpenGL dependency, see: https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear/tree/master/demo

Nuklear

You might want to try Nuklear https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear or imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , both to my knowledge have a Vulkan backend

In fact, if using a modern graphics pipeline with shaders, you will actually have to learn how to draw a single rectangle to your screen, and then use that knowledge to draw (anti-aliased) lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, ellipses, etc. too. For instance, have a look at https://www.cairographics.org/ https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear https://github.com/memononen/nanovg and https://github.com/nical/lyon. There are probably also tutorials on how to draw vectorized graphics using OpenGL, Vulkan, etc.

It looks really great. And there are examples inside demo https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear/tree/master/demo I should investigatevthat for sure. Thanks

P.S.: I know Nuklear has got a node editor, but this editor is only in an early stage of development and Nuklear development has pretty much halted since Vurtun left.

Link for anyone who want's to browse the source.