Decision Workspace
vks vs vulkan-rust-sys vs vulkane
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
47
vks
growingv0.21.0
Vulkan FFI bindings and symbol loader. Vulkan 1.0.59 and all extensions are supported.
58
vulkan-rust-sys
experimentalv0.10.1
Raw Vulkan FFI types generated from vk.xml
56
vulkane
experimentalv0.8.3
Vulkan API bindings generated entirely from vk.xml, with a complete safe RAII wrapper covering compute and graphics: instance/device/queue, buffer, image, sampler, render pass, framebuffer, graphics + compute pipelines, swapchain, a VMA-style sub-allocator with TLSF + linear pools and defragmentation, sync primitives (fences, binary + timeline semaphores, sync2 barriers), query pools, and optional GLSL/WGSL/HLSL→SPIR-V compilation via naga or shaderc. Supports Vulkan 1.2.175 onward — swap vk.xml and rebuild.
Core Metrics
| vks | vulkan-rust-sys | vulkane | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 47 | 58 | 56 |
| Total Downloads | 30.5K | 181 | 1.5K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 956 |
| Dependents | 24 | 3 | 0 |
| Releases | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Last Updated | 3193d ago | 4d ago | 15d ago |
| Age | 9y 2m | 3m | 3m |
Health Breakdown
vks
Maintenance
4
Quality
17
Community
10
Popularity
5
Documentation
11
vulkan-rust-sys
Maintenance
19
Quality
13
Community
8
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
vulkane
Maintenance
18
Quality
13
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| vks | vulkan-rust-sys | vulkane | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.21.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.8.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | ISC | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Crate Size | 100KB | 644KB | 585KB |
| Features | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | — | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.85 | 1.85 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •vulkan-rust-sys leads with a health score of 58/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •vks has the most downloads (30.5K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •⚠ vks has not been updated in over a year.