gfx-rs/wgpu
A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #322 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 54 days ago, with 405 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #46 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API supporting Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, OpenGL, WebGL2, and WebGPU backends.
- Ensures safety and portability by abstracting multiple native graphics APIs under a unified Rust interface based on the WebGPU standard.
- Use for developing high-performance, cross-platform graphics applications and games in Rust with modern GPU features.
- Use for integrating GPU-accelerated rendering in web applications via WebAssembly and WebGPU or WebGL2 backends.
- Use for building and testing GPU shaders with support for WGSL, SPIR-V, and GLSL, including shader translation and conformance testing.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
wgpuis a cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics API. It runs natively on Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, and OpenGL; and on top of WebGL2 and WebGPU on wasm.The API is based on the WebGPU standard. It serves as the core of the WebGPU integration in Firefox, Servo, and Deno.
Contributors are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
The repository hosts the following libraries:
For an overview of all the components in the gfx-rs ecosystem, see the big picture.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+652 stars over 83 days across 14 snapshot days; best day +35 on Sep 15.
Forks
1.5K+164
Open issues
1.3K+103
Compared with peers in Graphics
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| boykopovar/AnyPS5 | 45.5K | +20.5K | 40 | today |
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| elysia395/dsh-wallpaper-engine | 1.6K | +547 | 60 | 3 days ago |
| koharu-rs/koharu | 6.4K | +483 | 63 | 30 days ago |
| pytorch/pytorch | 105.0K | +449 | 64 | 22 days ago |
| gfx-rs/wgpu | 18.3K | +0 | 75 | 54 days ago |
| Category median | 45.5K | +547 | 60 | — |
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