Unified Shader Programming in C++

• DiligentEngine

  13 2,337 8.9 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/

• magnum

  11 4,031 9.8 C++

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

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• processing

  201 6,219 3.2 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.

• OpenFrameworks

  18 8,862 8.7 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.

• framework

  2 2 6.9 C

  

  > Unfortunately, it's not really a library

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

• Ion

  1 1,419 0.0 C++

  Ion (by google)

  

• rust-gpu

  39 4,499 8.9 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

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• globjects

  1 462 0.5 C++

  C++ library strictly wrapping OpenGL objects.

  

• bgfx

  20 11,510 9.5 C++

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

• dcompute

  3 116 1.6 D

  DCompute: Native execution of D on GPUs and other Accelerators

  

• makepad

  6 2,039 7.9 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/

• hn-search

  628 431 4.2 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

• shaders

  7 386 3.3 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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