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# Vulkano
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**Note: requires Rust 1.8**
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Vulkano is a Rust wrapper around [the Vulkan graphics API](https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/).
It follows the Rust philosophy, which is that as long as you don't use unsafe code you shouldn't
be able to trigger any undefined behavior. In the case of Vulkan, this means that non-unsafe code
should always conform to valid API usage.
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What does vulkano do?
- Provides a low-levelish API around Vulkan. It doesn't hide what it does, but provides some
confort types.
- Plans to prevents all invalid API usages, even the most obscure ones. The purpose of vulkano
is not to draw a teapot, but to cover all possible usages of Vulkan and detect all the
possible problems. Invalid API usage is prevented thanks to both compile-time checks and
runtime checks.
- Handles synchronization on the GPU side for you, as this aspect of Vulkan is both annoying
to handle and error-prone. Dependencies between submissions are automatically detected, and
semaphores are managed automatically. The behavior of the library can be customized thanks
to unsafe trait implementations.
- Tries to be convenient to use. Nobody is going to use a library that requires you to browse
the documentation for hours for every single operation.
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**Warning: this library breaks every five minutes for the moment.**
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## [Documentation](http://tomaka.github.io/vulkano/vulkano/index.html)
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## [Differences between Vulkan and vulkano](FEATURES.md)
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This repository contains three libraries:
- `vulkano` is the main one.
- `vulkano-shaders` can analyse SPIR-V shaders at compile-time.
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- `glsl-to-spirv` can compile GLSL to SPIR-V by wrapping around `glslang`.
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## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you shall be dual licensed as above, without any
additional terms or conditions.