Unified Shader Programming in C++

1. DiligentEngine

   1 27 3,689 9.3 Batchfile

   A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

   

   If you have relatively new GL, this one is good: https://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/

2. SaaSHub

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3. magnum

   2 22 4,859 9.6 C++

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

   

4. processing

   3 461 6,491 4.1 Java

   Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

   

   There's https://openframeworks.cc/. It's basically the C++ equivalent to https://processing.org/. Unfortunately, it's not really a library but rather a complete app framework, but it shows how a C++ wrapper API could look like. It definitely makes OpenGL programming easier and more fun.

5. OpenFrameworks

   4 44 10,020 9.4 C++

   openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

   

   There's https://openframeworks.cc/. It's basically the C++ equivalent to https://processing.org/. Unfortunately, it's not really a library but rather a complete app framework, but it shows how a C++ wrapper API could look like. It definitely makes OpenGL programming easier and more fun.

6. framework

   5 2 3 5.1 C

   

   > Unfortunately, it's not really a library

   I made it a library with a single header: https://github.com/redgpu/framework

7. Ion

   6 1 1,433 0.0 C++

   Discontinued Ion (by google)

   

8. rust-gpu

   7 83 7,392 5.4 Rust

   🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

   

   Rust also has this, from what I understand:

     https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu

9. globjects

   8 1 539 4.0 C++

   C++ library strictly wrapping OpenGL objects.

   

10. bgfx

    9 76 15,313 9.2 C++

    Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

    

11. dcompute

    10 5 138 0.0 D

    DCompute: Native execution of D on GPUs and other Accelerators

    

12. makepad

    11 24 5,240 9.9 Rust

    Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that compiles to wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11 linux/opengl

    

    Makepad does something simular with its universal shading language: https://makepad.dev/

13. hn-search

    12 1,892 547 2.9 TypeScript

    Hacker News Search

    

    This does unfortunately feel like the case. We've gone all-in on SYCL, mainly because of a pre-existing Intel relationship, but it never really seems to have gotten mindshare and e.g. never seems to have been dicussed here https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sycl

14. shaders

    13 9 480 1.8 C++

    Circle C++ shaders

    I think shader specialisation is handled pretty well in circle. Since you can essentially run arbitrary C++ code at compile time, selection and specialisation of a shader can even depend on hardware specific benchmarks. There is an extensive repo with examples here: https://github.com/seanbaxter/shaders. One example decodes a sprite sheet stored as a png at compile time and creates a specialised compute shader for it. You can also easily implement a control UI based on reflection of uniform shader parameters.

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