GrafiksAPIs

GrafiksAPIs is a modular, open-source graphics API framework designed to provide a unified interface for rendering tasks across major backends. It targets cross-platform applications, enabling developers to write rendering code that can run on Vulkan, DirectX, Metal, and OpenGL without significant backend changes. The framework covers 2D and 3D rendering, texture and buffer management, shader compilation, and compute operations, supporting real-time graphics and simulation workloads.

At its core, GrafiksAPIs defines a stable set of objects such as Device, SwapChain, CommandBuffer, Pipeline, Shader, Texture, and Buffer. A backend abstraction layer maps these objects to platform-specific implementations provided by backends for Vulkan, DirectX 12, Metal, and OpenGL. The shader system delegates to a GrafiksSL language, with compilers or translators to SPIR-V, HLSL, or GLSL, enabling cross-backend shading pipelines. Resource lifetimes are explicit, with built-in synchronization primitives and asynchronous command submission to improve performance on multi-core CPUs and GPUs.

GrafiksAPIs ships with idiomatic bindings for C++, Python, JavaScript, and Rust, facilitating use from game engines, visualization tools, and educational projects.

GrafiksAPIs originated in the open-source graphics community in the early 2020s as an effort to reduce API fragmentation. The project released its first public version in 2022, and has since evolved through multiple minor releases, focusing on stability, documentation, and a growing set of backends and samples.

GrafiksAPIs is licensed under the MIT License and hosted on a public repository with an open governance model that invites contributions from individuals and organizations. The project maintains example applications, tutorials, and reference implementations to support learning and integration into engines and tools.