# How to develop code in Vulkan using Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-develop-code-in-vulkan-using-julia/125456>\
**Category:** GPU\
**Tags:** gpu\
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-develop-code-in-vulkan-using-julia/125456 "2025-02-01T14:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mj2984](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mj2984/32/43833_2.png) [@mj2984](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mj2984)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-develop-code-in-vulkan-using-julia/125456/1 "2025-02-01T14:10:20Z")

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I am looking to see if it is possible to generate SPIR-V code from Julia that can be used in Vulkan (Compute). Or something that can transform Julia code to Vulkan for compute purposes.

The intention is to write a code in Julia that could run in Raspberry pi 5 or other single board computers supporting Vulkan and also potentially be able to compile as standalone using Package compiler.

I would be interested to contribute to the package if required.

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**Author:** ![nsajko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nsajko/32/221187_2.png) [@nsajko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nsajko)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-develop-code-in-vulkan-using-julia/125456/2 "2025-02-01T14:33:52Z")

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The home page for Julia GPU efforts is: [https://juliagpu.org](https://juliagpu.org), listing several backends. Vulkan doesn’t seem to be among them currently. BTW I moved this to the GPU part of the forum, feel free to revert if you disagree.

EDIT: ah, sorry, relevant packages do exist, but are not listed on that site:

- Vulkan.jl
- VulkanCore.jl (lower-level binding, dependency of the above)
- ShaderAbstractions.jl