SHshmerl·Jan 6, 2017
A pity you can't use Vulkan on MacOS. Otherwise you could have used vulkano[1] instead of OpenGL.
1. https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
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tomaka / vulkano
vulkano
Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesNo direct experience here, but I know there is Vulkano[1], a Rust library that wraps around the Vulkan API. But until (and if) a SPIR-V target is available to the Rust compiler, the compute shaders will still have to be programmed in another language (typically, GLSL). This covers the GPU side of your interest.
I don’t know how things stand in the embedded Rust camp, however.
[1] https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
In Announcing Rust 1.12.1I hope it will happen eventually, especially with projects like this:
https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
In CryEngine out on GitHubSame user (tomaka) also wrote Rust bindings for Vulcan API - vulcano[1], which obviously can be used for creating modern games.
[1] https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
In Doom on GLium, in RustIn Rust ecosystem, we've been experimenting with different ways to make CPU-GPU interaction safer when it comes to graphics abstractions.
In gfx-rs [1] one defines a Pipeline State Object with a macro, and then all the input/output data and resources are just fields in a regular Rust struct [2]. So assignment pretty much works as one expects. All the compatibility checks are done at run (init) time, when the shader programs are linked/reflected.
In vulkano [3] the Rust structures are generated at compile time by analyzing your SPIR-V code.
[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
[2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/blob/2c00b52568e5e7da3df227d415eab9f55feba5a9/exampl…
[3] https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
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