Sysgpu – Experimental Descendant of Webgpu Written in Zig
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The submission introduces Sysgpu, an experimental WebGPU descendant written in Zig, which has been integrated into the Mach game engine, sparking discussion about its value and potential as a graphics API.
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So while most systems will be using Vulkan, macOS will be using metal.
Mach, apparently, is a game engine written in Zig. Looks interesting but given the lack of details on the repo [1] and site [2], and the fact that the main demo seems to be simply a spinning textured cube, I'd imagine it's very early days for this.
[0] https://github.com/hexops/mach/tree/main/src/sysgpu
[1] https://github.com/hexops/mach
[2] https://machengine.org/