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If you have relatively new GL, this one is good: https://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/
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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.
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OpenFrameworks
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.
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> Unfortunately, it's not really a library
I made it a library with a single header: https://github.com/redgpu/framework
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Rust also has this, from what I understand:
https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu
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bgfx
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
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makepad
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/
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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
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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.