This is nice, thanks for sharing! On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 3:51:37 AM UTC+5, Maxim Kupriianov wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I'd start from a little story. On 3rd March a Reddit user itsmontoya, a > friend of mine, besides an ex-coworker, challenged me to do Go bindings for > the Vulkan API that has been released officially that day. It was a fun > idea since vulkan.h is a big chunk of a typical header code and I decided > to accept it. In a couple of hours I got ~17KLOC of binding code for that > header. Well, I had no idea where to get the implementation.. > > So it turned out that the implementation is a vendor-specific thing, and > the fastest way to get it is to buy an android tablet from Nvidia. So I did > that and after a couple of months (the parcel has been lost twice, so I > reordered) the table tablet was mine. In order to be able create apps for > android using the Android NDK without any fancy stuff being done with > ANativeWindow, I dedicated some time in May to create the well discussed > freamework http://github.com/xlab/android-go. It works cool with > EGL/GLES/GLES2 but of course that was a side-effect. What I really did was > the first Vulkan run on a device that got me the surface properties. > > Since May my binding generator improved a lot due to feedback and bugs I > got while binding those two beasts, > so in August I found some time on a weekend to create examples. And now > I'm glad to announce the release. > > Package github.com/vulkan-go/vulkan [1] provides Go bindings for Vulkan > [2] — a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API. And some > demo apps [3] for Android for those who have got the supported devices. > > [1]: https://github.com/vulkan-go/vulkan > [2]: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/ > [3]: https://github.com/vulkan-go/demos > > Cheers! > - Max > > P.S. still no generator release, but I may assure it's 99.9% ready now, > after all this :P > >
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