For some reason everyone keeps writing Vulkan bindings generators, so I thought I'd join the fun. That said, there are some differences to the popular alternatives:
- Enabling only select extensions / core versions. This was previously implemented in the generator, a rewrite to use Rust features is being worked on.
- Extensions are all available from a single table (or globally, if enabled) rather than each having an object that needs to be initialized and passed around. Using a symbol from an unloaded extension leads to a panic.
- No struct initialization with the builder pattern, instead just initialize the structs directly (though the Default implementations are aware of things like
sType). This loses the option of using lifetimes for the contained pointers, slices must manually be decomposed into a pointer and a u32 length, I consider this to be more readable and it should improve compile times and debug performance. - Fully generated Vulkan Video extensions support.
- erupt - The main inspiration for this project and the one you should probably use, every part is generated so it should be tho most up to date and consistent.
- vulkano - High level handwritten bindings that can automatically manage synchronization.
- ash - The most widely used bindings with the largest ecosystem, though the generator is truly disgusting and efforts to rewrite it or switch to some other are slow going.
- vulkanalia - Includes a full port of the Vulkan Tutorial.
- vulkan-bindings - Seemingly the most barebones low level bindings.