Top 7 Rust Metal Projects

wgpu

195 10,910 9.9 Rust

Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.

Project mention: GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

Oh look it's subgroup support landing last week: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5301

gfx

11 5,325 0.0 Rust

[maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.
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rust-skia

7 1,321 9.5 Rust

Rust Bindings for the Skia Graphics Library

Project mention: Integrate with Skia GL | /r/GTK | 2023-08-23

The only example that shedded some light on the integration was gtk4 + femtovg. So I mimicked the example, using gtk4-rs and Skia's rust bindings. I had some code similar to the following inside a subclass of GLArea to setup Skia's DirectContext, but it failed:

rend3

14 1,019 8.2 Rust

Easy to use, customizable, efficient 3D renderer library built on wgpu.

Project mention: Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-07

The WGPU people are still working through lock conflicts in that area. The idea with Vulkan land is that you should be able to load content while rendering is in progress. For that to be useful, all the layers above Vulkan also have to have their locking problems hammered out. Most open source game engines don't do that yet. Unreal Engine and Unity do, which is why you pay for them for your AAA title.
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BVE-Reborn/rend3/trunk/exa...
[2] https://github.com/BVE-Reborn/rend3/blob/trunk/examples/scen...
[3] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/sFPkECUxRUSxbKXRkCmjJK

wgpu-mc

2 441 8.0 Rust

Rust-based replacement for the default Minecraft renderer
ministark

1 323 7.7 Rust

🏃‍♂️💨 GPU accelerated STARK prover built on @arkworks-rs
spirv_cross

2 87 0.0 Rust

Safe Rust wrapper around SPIRV-Cross
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).