WebGL!

* http://khronos.org
Connecting Software to Silicon * Developers **** http://khronos.org/developers
Khronos technology developer resources * APIs http://khronos.org/developers/
* Vulkan http://khronos.org/vulkan
* OpenCL http://khronos.org/opencl

WebGL alternatives

  • Vulkan

  • Vulkan is the result of 18 months in an intense collaboration between leading hardware, game engine and platform vendors, built on significant contributions from multiple Khronos members. Vulkan is designed for portability across multiple platforms with desktop and mobile GPU architectures. Vulkan is available on multiple versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and has been adopted as a native rendering and compute API by platforms including Linux, SteamOS, Tizen and Android.

    tags: development opengl
  • Microsoft DirectX

  • Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

    tags: Bundleware development direct-input direct-setup direct3d
  • GLFW

  • GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events.

    tags: development game-creation game-engine gamepad-support library
  • GDI

  • GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better font-smoothing capability, just like Mac OS X.

    tags: Discontinued gdi cleartype font-smoothing font-rasterizer
  • Crystal Space

  • Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).

    tags: Discontinued dev dev-lib dev-libraries dev-library