Mach engine

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Mach is still early stages - see what we have today and stay tuned.

Cross-platform graphics in ~60 seconds

git clone --recursive https://github.com/hexops/mach-examples
cd mach-examples/
zig build run-boids

Cross-platform graphics, a unified shader language & compute shaders.
Requires zig 0.11.x | known issues

All you need is zig, git, and curl.

No more installing tools & dependencies to get started

Mach builds everything using the Zig C/C++ compiler: GLFW, Google Chrome's WebGPU implementation, even the DirectX Shader Compiler.

Prebuilt binaries are used for WebGPU so you don't even have to wait for compilation - just add `-Ddawn-from-source=true` for a 100% from-source build.

Built with love, hard work, and Zig

Effortless cross-compilation at your fingertips

Mach is written in Zig, a successor to C with blazing fast performance, compile-time code execution, safety, and in the future hot code swapping.

$ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows
$ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux
$ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-macos.12
$ zig build -Dtarget=aarch64-macos.12

⚠ Mach is early stages

What we do have is nice
and things are improving rapidly,
but we're not at Mach 1.0 yet,
we're missing lots - stay tuned.

Windows, Linux, and macOS support
Graphics API (examples)

Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12 & OpenGL fallback (WebGPU)
Unified shader language (WGSL)
Compute shaders
(lacking) Documentation

Input (GLFW)
(experimental) Entity Component System

What's next? (Lightning talk)

Broadcast at the first ever European Zig meetup in Milan, Italy.

Building tools & libraries to benefit all

Prefer Unity/Unreal? Not using Zig? We plan for our work to be useful for you too.

Our glfw bindings found lurking undefined behavior that went unnoticed for years. Use mach/gpu-dawn from your language of choice to build Google Chrome's WebGPU implementation via Zig (no cmake/ninja/gn/etc) into a single static library, with cross-compilation & prebuilt binaries.

These are all small potatoes. In the future, tooling is where we'll really contribute.

Open source, always & forever

Apache or MIT licensed, at your choosing.

FOSS is our roots, we've been playing and developing FOSS games & engines for 13+ years.

Contributors

Mach is created primarily by BDFL @slimsag, but we're very open to contributors! And since our projects are useful outside of Mach itself, there are already a few: