rust-sdl2

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 (absent the new GPU API). I doubt it will support any of the GPU API at this rate, as the geometry rendering is a much simpler API. 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 already, but it has IMO made it less approachable for people who do know SDL2. The crate gets plenty of downloads, so maybe

*sdl2::render src/sdl2/render.rs: https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/blob/master/src/sdl2/... SDL/test /testautomation_render.c: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/test/testautomat...

There are rust SDL2 bindings: https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2#use-sdl2render use::sdl2render, gl-rs for raw OpenGL: https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2?tab=readme-ov-file#op...

OpenFrameworks[0] is quite popular for creative coding even though it's written in C++ - framework is actually pleasant to use. If you want to do some creative coding on both iOS and Android you don't have many options. If you want to use sensors (cameras, microphones, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc) and e.g. process video stream at 120fps you have even less choices. Sadly OpenFrameworks development seems kind of stalled. Nannou + Rust could be a good or even better alternative: 1) painless cross-compilation to different platforms 2) plugins installation via cargo 3) more up-to-date plugins as tiny wrappers around CPAL [1] (audio I/O), nokhwa [2] (video i/o), opencv-rust[3] (video I/O and processing), rust-sdl2 [4](IMU sensors + game controllers), egui [5] (immediate mode gui + plotting) 4) better errors and more modern language [0] https:

I agree wgpu is great, but wgpu isn't a substitute for SDL. The Rust project that replaces SDL is called winit https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit One can use wgpu with winit (which is more common) or, if they prefer, wgpu with sdl2. Here is an example: https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/tree/master/examples/... edit: but, the "next-gen Vulkan API" the article refers to, that SDL will be developing, it would be a competitor to wgpu.

There's some nice bindings for SDL that's rather well-maintained: https://github.com/AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2

FYI I've got a pull request pending[0] that fixes the `rust-sdl2` breakage :) [0]: https://github.com/AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2/pull/46