Unfortunately, today, Vulkan doesn't get you cross platform compatibility. On many Windows machines only dx11/dx12 is available. gfx-rs (which wgpu-rs is based

Unfortunately, today, Vulkan doesn't get you cross platform compatibility. On many Windows machines only dx11/dx12 is available. gfx-rs (which wgpu-rs is based on) is the closest thing one can get to a low overhead portable GPU API.