Any experience from Ada/Vulkan?

reinert · March 25, 2025, 10:29am

Out of curiosity, does anyone have experience using Vulkan with Ada? Are there any mature bindings available?

reinert

jere · March 25, 2025, 12:52pm

It looks like Lucretia started some here: GitHub - Lucretia/adavulkan: Ada 2012 binding to Vulkan
Phasercat games has some bindings here: VulkAda - Phaser Cat
This is more of a side thing, but getintogamedev has been learning Ada to use with Vulkan. I think the first video or two has some vulkan setup stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoIjGpXVvuw&list=PLn3eTxaOtL2Oxl9HbNOhIPVozAWCeyCZ4&pp=0gcJCWMEOCosWNin

There may be more things

mgrojo · March 27, 2025, 8:19pm

The AdaDoom3 project has a thin Vulkan binding too.

github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3

Engine/neo-api-vulkan.ads

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with Neo.Core.Arrays; use Neo.Core.Arrays;
with Neo.Core.Vectors;

-- Custom binding to the Vulkan API: http://web.archive.org/save/_embed/https://www.khronos.org/files/vulkan10-reference-guide.pdf
package Neo.API.Vulkan is

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I cannot give opinion on any of them.

Lucretia · March 27, 2025, 9:46pm

Yeah, I started some, but didn’t get that far.