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    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    no, it's not. wgpu maps/translates calls to webgpu (duh) , webgl, opengl, gles, vulkan, dx11, software rendering etc depending on what platform it's running on.
    it's a bit bloated since you're basically including code for all backends but whatever, final executables are still like 5 mb.
    no web involved unless you want to

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    wgpu is a Rust library. Using it from programs they are not written in Rust, such as Godot games, poses a significant challenge.

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    well there's also dawn for c++, which is also an implementation of webgpu.
    wgpu also has official c/c++ bindings.

    btw you probably don't need a low-level gpu library if you're already using a game engine...

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

    btw you probably don’t need a low-level gpu library if you’re already using a game engine…

    the low level graphics library calls have to be implemented somewhere, don't they? if i'm one of the developers of the Godot engine, and I'm writing Godot in C++, I'm not going to use a Rust graphics library