Vkngwrapper (proununced "Viking Wrapper") is a handwritten cgo wrapper for the Vulkan graphics and compute API. The goal is to produce fast, easy-to-use, low-go-allocation, and idiomatic Go code to communicate with your graphics card and enable games and other graphical applications. Vkngwrapper currently supports core versions 1.0-1.2 via the https://github.com/vkngwrapper/core repository, as well as many extensions via the https://github.com/vkngwrapper/extensions repository.

Under the hood, Vkngwrapper uses https://github.com/cannibalvox/cgoparam to avoid calling C.Malloc and C.Free while still avoiding the cost of a deep cgocheck on Go memory. This allows you to save precious nanoseconds (or sometimes microseconds!) on your cgo overhead.

Vkngwrapper is also heavily-tested. The marshalling and unmarshalling layer has high test coverage, giving the core library 86.0% test coverage and the extensions library 84.9% test coverage. While this coverage is not perfect, Vulkan has an extremely large API surface, and these tests ensure that there is no obviously-busted functionality. Additionally, the entire API is mockable (and pre-generated gomocks are provided), allowing you to test your own code with ease.

Lastly, vkngwrapper has a solid and still-growing base of examples, built from Go ports of existing Vulkan examples. Several key samples from https://github.com/LunarG/VulkanSamples have are included in our example repository, as well as a full port of the Vulkan tutorial, which can be followed step by step at https://github.com/vkngwrapper/vulkan-tutorial

For more information about how to use vkngwrapper, check out the core repository!

• Vulkan Wrapper core 1.0-1.2
• Fast, zero allocation 3d math library with SIMD support (Why not SIMD?)
• Pure go port of VMA
• Pure go port of Quake 2
• Vulkan Wrapper core 1.3 and 1.4
• NEON/SVE support in 3d math library (Why not SIMD?)
• Fyne and/or GioUI Integration
• Port many Vulkan Samples, using Fyne or GioUI in place of DearImgui