It's probably as simple as 'cargo vs cmake'. wgpu-native is a regular cargo package which is straightforward to integrate and build. Google's libdawn is a mix o

It's probably as simple as 'cargo vs cmake'. wgpu-native is a regular cargo package which is straightforward to integrate and build. Google's libdawn is a mix of cmake and Google depot tools, which makes the same process anything but trivial. I don't agree with your take on WASM though. Emscripten does a pretty good job of making developer's life easier. (there's also a real need for a medium-level cross-platform GPU API which abstracts over D3D12, Vulkan and Metal, and WebGPU seems to be the most robust option for this at the moment)