Welcome to Vulkan: Your First Triangle Will Hurt

Description

A four-panel comic using Zelda CD-i style artwork of Link. Panel 1: an enthusiastic Link with sword and shield says 'YAY, GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING!' with 'HEY!' beside a fairy. Panel 2: Link spots a skeleton enemy with a red triangle above it, captioned 'HEY LOOK IT'S A TRIANGLE, LET'S DRAW IT'. Panel 3: the skeleton violently stabs Link, depicted with a large red triangle as the weapon and a 'SCHUNK!' sound effect. Panel 4: a bleeding, crying Link looks at the triangle impaling him with a sign reading 'WELCOME TO Vulkan BITCH' featuring the Vulkan API logo. The comic lampoons the notorious verbosity of the Vulkan graphics API, where rendering a single 'hello triangle' requires roughly a thousand lines of boilerplate covering instances, devices, swapchains, pipelines, and synchronization

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Vulkan gives you explicit control over everything - including exactly how many of the 1,200 lines of swapchain boilerplate it takes to draw the same triangle OpenGL did in 1992 with twelve

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Vulkan gives you explicit control over everything - including exactly how many of the 1,200 lines of swapchain boilerplate it takes to draw the same triangle OpenGL did in 1992 with twelve
Anonymous

A Vulkan triangle has three vertices and twelve hundred lines of emotional-support initialization.
@HmDori 3mo

What wrong with Vulkan?
1. @agonyship 2mo
  
  Vulkan considered harmful
2. @Daonifur 2mo
  
  A lot of it is compatibility with older systems. Idk any specifics outside of this context though
  
  @b7sum 2mo
  
  haven't you explored graphics programming before
  
  @Daonifur 2mo
  
  Yeah but before Vulkan
  
  @b7sum 2mo
  
  drawing a triangle requires ≈1100 loc with proper comment documentation
  
  @Daonifur 2mo
  
  Ah, so not only is it not supported on older operating systems and devices, it takes a lot just to get it started
3. Егор 2mo
  
  Not high level enough. Memes about it are made by the same people who make memes about missing ;
4. @azizhakberdiev 2mo
  
  not the best way to learn 3d graphics at all, instead of focusing on rendering models, you have to first learn its intricacies and optimizations
5. @polyduekes 2mo
  
  it's not as simple as opengl
@sysoevyarik 2mo

Vulkans fans be like: "uhm actually its gives you freedom for unknown before optimization for your unique cases" and then proceed to write their own version of opengl 3 api, but shittier (same happens with opengl 3 and opengl 1 tbf)
1. @feedable 2mo
  
  aint no way anyone makes immediate mode on purpose
  
  @feedable 2mo
  
  or even the binding hell
@Agent1378 2mo

So the, what is left is joke about DirectX and shader language also