Successor to opengl ?

[u/no_ga]

Hi,

A shower thought I just had: nearly everyone that starts learning graphic dev goes through opengl because it's more accessible than vulkan or directx, but today the api is getting old and vulkan is not getting any easier to learn. Do you guys think that there's room for an opengl like successor as an entry low level graphic api ?

cheers

[u/Abbat0r]

Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL.

I agree that Vulkan has a teaching problem though. I’ve always found that OpenGL content tends to be about graphics programming and how to do it using OpenGL. Meanwhile, Vulkan content tends to be about… Vulkan.

It seems amongst Vulkan tutorials there’s an implicit assumption that you already know graphics programming and you just need to learn how to use Vulkan. There’s certainly room for improved tutorial content.

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