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		maccam94 on Oct 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, ... Cross-platform compatibility, and being able to use the same graphics APIs and libraries as the rest of the computer industry.

kvark on Oct 1, 2019 [–]

Unfortunately, today, Vulkan doesn't get you cross platform compatibility. On many Windows machines only dx11/dx12 is available.

gfx-rs (which wgpu-rs is based on) is the closest thing one can get to a low overhead portable GPU API.

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