Decision Workspace
osmic-accel vs apple-metal vs mtl-sys
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
46
osmic-accel
experimentalv0.1.1
GPU-accelerated geometry processing for tile generation (Apple Silicon Metal)
62
apple-metal
experimentalv0.8.7
Safe Rust bindings for Apple's Metal framework — devices, resources, command encoding, advanced GPU objects, and IOSurface interop on macOS, backed by a Swift bridge
57
mtl-sys
experimentalv1.0.1
Low-level Objective-C runtime bindings for Metal
Core Metrics
| osmic-accel | apple-metal | mtl-sys | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 46 | 62 | 57 |
| Total Downloads | 104 | 1.1K | 251 |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 1.1K | 0 |
| Dependents | 2 | 65 | 8 |
| Releases | 2 | 17 | 2 |
| Last Updated | 17d ago | 5d ago | 111d ago |
| Age | 1m | 10d | 3m |
Health Breakdown
osmic-accel
Maintenance
13
Quality
12
Community
7
Popularity
2
Documentation
12
apple-metal
Maintenance
19
Quality
16
Community
11
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
mtl-sys
Maintenance
11
Quality
19
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| osmic-accel | apple-metal | mtl-sys | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.1 | 0.8.7 | 1.0.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| Crate Size | 18KB | 80KB | 15KB |
| Features | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | 1.94 | 1.76 | 1.85 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •apple-metal leads with a health score of 62/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •osmic-accel, apple-metal are pre-1.0 — API may change.