A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019

However, DirectX 12, the most recent version, is part of a new generation of much lower-level API’s that give the programmer much more control over the details of how the GPU executes and orders things. Well, my understanding is not the best, but I’ll try to sum it up: a lot of stuff in OpenGL (and probably DirectX pre-DX12) involved mutating state in the GPU driver, such as telling it “switch to this blending mode” or “load this shader”. But instead after everyone else had already bought into it they announced they would never use Vulkan, they made this cool new thing called Metal that everyone should use, and oh by the way they’re going to stop supporting OpenGL at some point down the road anyway and nobody but them is ever allowed to write graphics drivers for their hardware.

Source: wiki.alopex.li