Good graphical library? (not looking for game engine)

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  1. wgpu

    A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API.

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  3. vk-graph

    High-performance Vulkan driver with automated resource management and execution

    Screen 13 is an easy to use render graph library - it doesn't have opinions on your shader code or render passes and can be easy to use kind of like a modern OpenGL. Runs where Vulkan runs: Windows/Mac/Linux/Mobile - no web.

  4. notan

    Cross-platform multimedia layer

    notan is designed as a foundation layer for game engines or apps and it provides a graphics API that runs in all desktop and web.

  5. pixels

    A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀

    I'm using Pixels. It's basically what it says on the tin: a pixel buffer for 2d games.

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