pygfx
Supporting Dawn as a backend
Dawn is Google's implementation of webgpu.h. This (in theory) means that we can use the same ffi to load the dawn library. Though we now also use some wgpu-native-specific stuff via wgpu.h.
At the time of writing there are (that I know) no readily available pre-build binaries. I also don't have a clear incentive for spending time on this right now, but at some point it may get interesting.
Related issues:
- https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native/issues/343
I came across this in my research: https://machengine.org/pkg/mach-gpu/
They use zig's excellent c/c++ support and build system to cross compile dawn for many plaforms and state this as a future goal:
- Expose a standard Dawn webgpu.h-compliant C ABI, which routes through Zig comptime interfaces.
In which case that would become an excellent source of prebuilt binaries.
