wgpu/README.md

This is an active GitHub mirror of the WebGPU implementation in Rust, which now lives in "gfx/wgpu" of Mozilla-central. Issues and pull requests are accepted, but some bidirectional synchronization may be involved.

WebGPU

This is an experimental WebGPU implementation, exposing both Rust and C interfaces as a native static library. It's written in Rust and is based on gfx-hal and a few Rendy bits. See the upstream WebGPU specification (work in progress).

The implementation consists of the following parts:

1. wgpu-core - internal Rust API for WebGPU implementations to use
2. wgpu-native - the native implementation of WebGPU as a C API library
3. wgpu-remote - remoting layer to work with WebGPU across the process boundary, as a C API library used by Gecko
4. wgpu-types - Rust types shared between wgpu-core, wgpu-native, wgpu-remote, and wgpu-rs
5. ffi - the C headers generated by cbindgen for the native headers

Bindings

• gfx-rs/wgpu-rs - idiomatic Rust wrapper with a few more examples to get a feel of the API
• almarklein/wgpu-py - experimental Python wrapper
• porky11/wgpu - experimental Scopes wrapper
• cshenton/WebGPU.jl - experimental Julia wrapper

Supported Platforms

API	Windows	Linux	macOS & iOS
DX11	✅
DX12	✔️
Vulkan	✔️	✔️
Metal			✔️
OpenGL	🚧	🚧	🚧

Usage

This repository contains C-language examples that link to the native library targets and perform basic rendering and computation. Please refer to our Getting Started page at the wiki for more information.