Rust-sdl2 Alternatives

rust-sdl2 reviews and mentions

• SDL3 new GPU API merged
  25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2024

  It exists, but IMO it's not a good choice.

  First of all, it doesn't support RenderGeometry or RenderGeometryRaw, which are necessary for high-performance 2D rendering. I doubt it will support any of the GPU stuff at this rate, as the geometry rendering is pretty much a prerequisite. Maybe both will land all at once, though. To wit, the relevant issue hasn't seen much activity: https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/issues/1180

  Secondly, the abstractions chosen by rust-sdl2 are quite different from those of SDL2 itself. There seems to have been an aggressive attempt by the Rust library authors to make something more Rust-friendly, which maybe has made it more approachable for people who don't know SDL2, but it has IMO made it less approachable for people who do know SDL2. The crate gets plenty of downloads, so maybe it's just me.

• Nannou – An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2023
• SDL2 issues
  1 project | /r/sdl | 14 Feb 2023
• SDL&C Or Wgpu&Rust, for Learning Graphics Programming ?
  1 project | /r/rust | 3 Feb 2023

  I don't think that SDL and WGPU are really comparable. You'd be better off comparing SDL to something like Notan or even the SDL bindings for Rust. That said, SDL will have vastly more learning resources than Wgpu or Notan or any Rust alternative. If you know and like rust you can probably use the resources with the Rust SDL bindings.

• Game Lib similar to LWJGL Pygame SDL
  2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 16 Jan 2023

  Those are 3 very different libraries. Are you looking for something in the middle, or do you want all of the features you described? For what it's worth, there's SLD2 bindings for Rust https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2

• How would I connect renderer coded in C and logic coded in rust?
  2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 14 Nov 2022

  There's already a Rust binding for SDL2. See https://crates.io/crates/sdl2

• SDL2 vs Winit/Pixels/CPAL/etc. Is going "native" really worth it?
  4 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 12 Oct 2022

  nope. https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/issues/884 emscripten target won't work yet either.

• I would like a simple, but abstracted, drawing library
  4 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2022

  it seems like what you are looking for is sdl2 bindings

• cannot borrow `renderer` as mutable more than once at a time
  1 project | /r/rust | 21 Jun 2022

  Dude. It's literally at most 50 lines of code, the entire project. What kind of documentation do you expect me to write? The library I'm using is this one. I don't know why you'd need to know anything about it since it's purely something that can appear literally anywhere, it's part of the language.

• C++ coders, why do you stick with the language?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 26 May 2022

  *and* SDL2-sys *and* Rust-SDL2

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