What's the best way to learn Metal?

• metal-rs

  5 519 5.7 Rust

  Rust bindings for Metal

  

I found working in rust with these bindings much easier https://github.com/gfx-rs/metal-rs

• LearnOpenGL

  624 10,240 3.7 C++

  Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

Metal is a fairly explicit graphics API, whose advantages won't really be available to you as a beginner. Learn basic OpenGL 3.3 with https://learnopengl.com/ and jump to Metal after you have made some stuff with GL

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• metal-cpp

  16 250 3.3 C++

  Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.

There's official C++-interface: https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/

• particles-metal

  1 3 10.0 C++

  Buffer before I merge it with OpenGL implementation

Some time ago I’ve played with Metal and C++ and I really wanted to avoid metal-cpp to understand how to bridge Swift-c++. I ended up with Swift->objc->objc++, where you can call Metal’s objc interface directly. Here’s the code if you’re interested: https://github.com/Starielora/particles-metal

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