simple-wgpu

An opinionated wrapper around wgpu-rs, that aims to improve the API ergonomics.

I'm a big fan of the write-once-cross-compile-anywhere promise underlying WebGPU, but I'm less of a fan of the API itself. The WebGPU API is modelled on an earlier, pipeline-centric vision of the Vulkan API, and has inherited a degree of verbosity/inflexibility as a result. This library aims to recapture some of the simplicity of writing code for OpenGL - ideally without giving up the safety and stability guarantees of wgpu-rs.

Goals

• Reduce the combinatorial pipeline explosion, along the lines of VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
• Improve DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) by eliminating the duplicate specification in bind group/pipeline layout objects
• Make pipeline specification render target-agnostic, so the same pipeline can render to different types of target texture

Non-goals

• Performance. I don't want this wrapper to be slow, but where necessary I will trade performance for ergonomics.
• API Stability (for now). I'm actively iterating on where the boundary between dynamic and baked state should be, as well as whether the more object-oriented wrappers make sense.
• 100% coverage of wgpu features. I'll wrap more functionality as it becomes useful to me.

Who is it for?

Me, mostly, but if you find it useful, feel free.

License

I've put this under the Apache license, but if you need a more permissive license, feel free to get in touch.