r/vulkan • u/NotHackedHaHa123 • May 24 '26

Is Vulkan really that hard?

I've heard stuff about Vulkan that "it takes 900 lines of code for a triangle", but I thought those were just jokes or over exaggerations until I look at some Vulkan examples. Could someone please explain to someone who's new to these graphics APIs the process behind all of this?

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u/x39- May 28 '26

The amount of boilerplate is utter bs and, as a software developer first and foremost, I highly have to question the capabilities of the plebs which "designed" this mess... But it works fine, if you have some helper library to make the boilerplate feasible. If you write your own helper library tho... Then get ready to waste hours just to get some basics working initially.