The "ergonomic" API is the Javascript API. Of course that is only usable from Javascript (ok, and Typescript). If you want to use WebGPU from as many languages

The "ergonomic" API is the Javascript API. Of course that is only usable from Javascript (ok, and Typescript). If you want to use WebGPU from as many languages as possible, a C API is pretty much the only option. There's also a C++ API, but just as with the JS API, this is limited to a single language. For usage from Rust you can also use gfx-rs/wgpu, which has a Rust-idiomatic API (e.g. see: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/trunk/examples/hello-triangle/src/main.rs https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/trunk/examples/hello-tri... - which to be honest doesn't look more "ergonomic" than the C API to me). Also, it's not like the C API is "unergonomic", it works with C99 designated initialization which makes it quite nice to use. The only downside is COM-style manual lifetime management via ref/release calls, but if you are used to Direct3D that's a no-brainer (it works exactly the same), and the C++ API has RAII wrappers for this stuff.