gecko-dev/gfx/wgpu/README.md

This is an active GitHub mirror of the WebGPU native implementation in Rust, which now lives in Mozilla-central. Issues and pull requests are accepted, but we merge them in m-c manually and then sync to GitHub instead of landing directly here.

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WebGPU

This is an experimental WebGPU implementation as a native static library. It's written in Rust and is based on gfx-hal and Rendy libraries. The corresponding WebIDL specification can be found at gpuweb project.

The implementation consists of the following parts:

1. wgpu-core - internal Rust API for WebGPU implementations to use
2. wgpu-native - the native implementation of WebGPU as a C API library
3. wgpu-remote - remoting layer to work with WebGPU across the process boundary
4. ffi - the C headers generated by cbindgen for both of the libraries

Supported Platforms

API	Windows	Linux	macOS & iOS
DX11	✔️
DX12	✔️
Vulkan	✔️	✔️
Metal			✔️
OpenGL

Usage

This repository contains C-language examples that link to the native library targets and perform basic rendering and computation. Please refer to our Getting Started page at the wiki for more information.

Bindings:

• https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs - idiomatic Rust wrapper with a few more examples to get a feel of the API
• https://nest.pijul.com/porky11/wgpu - experimental Scopes wrapper