A minimal WebGPU-based render engine that can load and display textured and shaded OBJ files. Uses bindbc-wgpu to link WebGPU functions and SDL2 to create a window. Written in D language.
The demo renders a Cerberus model by Andrew Maximov.
Warning: highly experimental! I've tested it on Windows and Linux so far. It probably should work on macOS, however has not been tested yet.
To run the application, you should install SDL2 and wgpu-native 22.1. Under Windows, SDL2.dll and wgpu_native.dll can be copied to the application directory.
It is a new low-level graphics and compute API for the Web that works on top of Vulkan, DirectX 12, or Metal. It exposes the generic computational facilities available in today's GPUs in a cross-platform way.
wgpu-native is a native WebGPU implementation in Rust that compiles to a library with C API, which can be used in any language. This potentially makes WebGPU a viable and future-proof alternative to OpenGL for cross-platform graphics development.
Probably. Let's wait for the API to stabilize first.