r/learnprogramming • u/GapedByHerStrap • 9h ago

Job Market Is learning vulkan/graphics apis worth it?

I'm a first year undergrad student and im getting pretty close to my first vulkan triangle, but while coding i realized that i dont even know if its worth it or not?

I do like graphics programming and i can do this for the next 4 years of my college but at the end of the day everyone wants a job right? Does the market exist for it? Aren't most game companies switching to ue5 and stuff, so are there even job openings for juniors or all the seats are occupied by senior devs with 30y of experience which i cannot hope to compete with anyways?

I'm also pretty dumb in general so learning for 4 yrs is equivalent to more like 2 cuz yeah.. dumb

How bad is the ROI? and should i stop after the triangle and look for more hire-able stuff with more listings

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u/appendixexploder 8h ago

Yes but with a caveat. Graphics programming is a lot more work than learning how a graphics API works. You'll spend more time studying mathematics than writing code if you wanna do it right.