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gfx-rs / gfx

gfx

[maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.

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[maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-15 01:01:43 UTC to 2020-05-06 12:47:00 UTC.

024682014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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eddyb·Apr 19, 2015
I did find it a bit surprising that Rust is showing up on the scene that fast. Another interesting project is https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx-rs - their abstractions may seem too much for wrapping OpenGL, until you realize they're ready for a Mantle/Vulkan backend, just need someone to write it. Personally, I wish I could use Mantle on Linux, but the eventual support is probably going to skip that stage and go directly for Vulkan. From reading more online, it seems possible that at least one of Intel, AMD and Nvidia will release a SteamOS-compatible (and thus, Linux in general) Vulkan driver later this year.
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