Vulkan Alternatives
Vulkan is described as 'new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms' and is a popular app in the Development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Vulkan for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and BSD. The best alternative is OpenGL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vulkan are WebGL (Free, Open Source), SDL (Free, Open Source), Microsoft DirectX (Free) and Allegro (Free, Open Source).
- OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications.
- WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.No screenshots yet
- Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.
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aaronfranke SDL handles everything (input, sound, files) and wraps around graphics APIs like Vulkan. Not the same thing. - Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.
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- Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc.No screenshots yet
- CrossBrowdy is an open-source and free JavaScript framework that let developers create multimedia apps, game engines, games, emulators and so on.
- Metal provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS.
- Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).
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