vulkanic

Ultra-thin Vulkan API wrapper sitting on top of vk-sys.

Checkout Examples.

Why another Vulkan wrapper?

Vulkan API is a very performant, low-level graphics and computation API. Drawbacks are the complex usage and e.g. a simple "hello world"-triangle with Vulkan has about 1000 lines of code using the the plain vk-sys bindings and that's a lot.

Many resources out there about Vulkan are (still) in C++. It's way easier to adapt C++ examples without any library indirection, so using Vulkan through vulkanic crate will allow you to understand the API reading the official specs.

Other Vulkan wrappers / libraries

• ash: A very lightweight wrapper around Vulkan.
• vulkano: A Rust wrapper around the Vulkan graphics API.

vulkanic features

• adapter for vk-sys ✅
  • vk::EntryPoints ✅
  • vk::InstancePointers ✅
  • vk::DevicePointers ✅
• fewer unsafes ✅
• zero-cost adapter ✅
• no Vulkan allocation-callback utilization ❌
• no window creation ❌
• no validatation ❌
• no builder patterns ❌
• no Vulkan abstraction ❌
• no shader compilation ❌