boxy VS vulkan

Compare boxy vs vulkan and see what are their differences.

boxy

2D GPU rendering with a tiling atlas. (by treeform)

vulkan

Vulkan C bindings for Nim (by DanielBelmes)
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boxy vulkan
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5.5 5.6
6 days ago 8 months ago
Nim Nim
MIT License MIT License
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boxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of boxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Not by itself! But together with other library boxy you can: https://github.com/treeform/boxy

    You should use pixie to load textures, create text, rasterize vector graphic etc... and send them to boxy to be drawn every frame.

    Yes Pixie is CPU only, and just like you can't use Cairo or Skea for real time games you can't use Pixie, but boxy you totally can.

  • How can I add graphics to my nim program?
    10 projects | /r/nim | 4 Jun 2023
  • Simple Gamepad Support
    7 projects | /r/nim | 10 May 2023
    I made it because I really like pixie/boxy/windy combo, but there is no gamepad support built-in.
  • Is Fidget usable for implementation of 3D rendering?
    9 projects | /r/nim | 12 Nov 2022
    The author Fidget actually has a number of other great libraries that are part of the rendering stack. Notably, Pixie for text and shape rendering in 2D, Boxy for rendering textures to the GPU via opengl, and then Windy for an OS window context and user events, and a number of other libraries related to 3D rendering.

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 boxy and vulkan you can also consider the following projects:

cpython - Alternative StdLib for Nim for Python targets, hijacks Python StdLib for Nim

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

nim-gamepad - Cross-platform gamepad library for nim

nimgl - NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics

owlkettle - A declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4

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

pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.

windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.

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

pixels - Toy support library for primitive graphics programming.