GFX-RS Continues Advancing For High-Performance, Portable Graphics In Rust

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GFX-RS Continues Advancing For High-Performance, Portable Graphics In Rust

GFX-RS has been the Rust programming language project for a high-performance, portable graphics API that can map to Vulkan, Apple's Metal, Direct3D, etc from a single Rust API...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GFX-RS-February-2018-State

[FishPls]

This is a great project. WebRender will probably end up using this in the future, and thus this library will make it's way to Firefox.

[shmerl]

This is a great project. WebRender will probably end up using this in the future, and thus this library will make it's way to Firefox.

It's great, but it it's a workaround needed as a result of crooked lock-in proponents not supporting Vulkan. I.e. the efforts could go into something more useful if there wouldn't have been a need to work around the lock-in.

[azdaha]

"You got some schmutz on that Apple Metal! Oh, it's just Rust"

Awesome stuff from Mozilla once again. From Rust to this; it'll be interesting to see how Rust will be implemented across different projects in the future.

[nomadewolf]

So, is this like a translation layer to 'convert' DX, Metal and OpenGL into Vulkan? Or is it the other way around?

Could this be used to run Windows games directly on Linux, for instance?

[log0]

So, is this like a translation layer to 'convert' DX, Metal and OpenGL into Vulkan? Or is it the other way around?

Could this be used to run Windows games directly on Linux, for instance?

No. It is yet another portable graphics API that sits on top of Vulkan, Metal, DX12.

Games are more than graphics. So the closest thing to running "Windows games directly on Linux" is Wine.

[nomadewolf]

No. It is yet another portable graphics API that sits on top of Vulkan, Metal, DX12.

Games are more than graphics. So the closest thing to running "Windows games directly on Linux" is Wine.

So, something writen against this graphics API has the potential to run anywhere?
And the implementation of this graphics API is then done up on Vulkan, DX12, Metal?

[shmerl]

So, something writen against this graphics API has the potential to run anywhere?
And the implementation of this graphics API is then done up on Vulkan, DX12, Metal?

Yes. It's a workaround for the horrible fragmentation caused by lock-in freaks who didn't adopt Vulkan.