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Native WebGPU implementation based on wgpu-core

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2021-10-18 · latest 2025-11-22

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  1. …unified headers and a C library that the maintainers have written as a wrapper around the library. https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native https://github.com/eliemichel/WebGPU-Cpp
    comment by merksoftworks · 2025-11-22 · in How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)
  2. …a wrapper over wgpu-native [2] which is written in Rust. 1. https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py 2. https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native
    comment by zoogeny · 2025-03-11 · in Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
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    Native WebGPU implementation based on wgpu-core
    story by Bluestein · 2024-09-04 · 0 comments
  4. This seems like a good case where you want to be using wgpu ( https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native ) rather than raw webgl so that you can easily upgrade people to webgpu in the browser and Vulkan on desktop in order to render with less…
    comment by xyzsparetimexyz · 2024-09-04 · in Substrata is an open-source metaverse, with as few technical limits as possible
  5. …detail at it yet) the official webgpu.h header. For instance all examples in here are written in C: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native/tree/trunk/examples There's definitely also people using wgpu from Zig via the C bindings.
    comment by flohofwoe · 2024-08-30 · in SDL3 new GPU API merged
  6. …It's also possible to use wgpu-native in C/C++ projects as prebuilt library, see: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native
    comment by flohofwoe · 2023-11-11 · in Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
  7. …on it but, ironically, wgpu with wgpu-native might be easier to get started with, even with C/C++. https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native/releases/latest has ZIPs with Windows DLLs and headers.
    comment by vore · 2023-11-11 · in Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
  8. You can use wgpu with C++ via https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native
    comment by steveklabnik · 2022-08-03 · in Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
  9. WGPU is the underlying implementation for WebGPU in Firefox and it has C bindings: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native.git .
    comment by YmiYugy · 2021-10-18 · in Learn Wgpu