WebGPU or Raylib for performance?

[anywany]

I'm currently building my own 2D game engine and deciding which rendering backend to choose. My main goals are:

• Maximum performance (FPS, memory efficiency)

• Support for large open worlds and heavy simulations

• Cross-platform (desktop and mobile; iOS and web is not critical)

• I do not want to dive deep into low-level graphics APIs unless necessary

I'm considering 4 options:

• WebGPU — (web)

• Raylib (C or C++) — native opengl based, it has a simple API

• WebGL (2.0) — (for web)

• Canvas 2D API — (for web and weakest for performance)

Even though it's for 2D only, there will be a huge number of draw calls, large tilemaps, dynamic objects, maybe even ECS later.
Which one would give me the best performance for 2D rendering in such a case? I'm currently torn between using JavaScript with WebGPU, Raylib with C/C++, or wgpu with rust.

thanks in advance!

[jestarray]

do you have any reference games to what you're making?

[anywany]

yes, noita is exactly what i'm aiming for — especially the physics and particle systems. but i'm making a large open-world/space sandbox with semi-military elements