What Learning Vulkan is Like

Took me 9 months to get this damn triangle. A blog post (by Richard Geldreich) about all the nuances of OpenGL: https://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/things-that-drive-me-nuts-about-opengl.html More on Vulkan: I find its API to be one of the best I have used and its conventions to be very well thought out. Plus I find the documentation to be clean for learning AND using Vulkan despite what others say. I knew nothing about graphics programming prior to Vulkan and love it now. Vulkan provides all the building blocks you need. Nothing more.

Channel: MadMaxsMotherGenerated by anonymousDuration: 3mPublished Oct 31, 2025
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01:31 - What is Vulkan?
03:00 - Why even bother learning Vulkan?
05:13 - The painful truth about the learning curve
06:40 - Getting started: The Vulkan SDK
08:57 - Your best friend: Validation Layers
10:11 - The long road to drawing a single triangle
15:58 - The glorious result!
16:40 - The final verdict: Should YOU learn Vulkan?

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