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> Vulkan honestly doesn't look much better.

What? Vulkan seems to give pretty good access to hardware command buffers etc. It's pretty good API for low overhead graphics.

> I've only dipped my toes into Metal, but it looks like it has solved some of these issues.

I looked into it, and couldn't even find proper C bindings. Isn't it also only available on some OS X and iOS devices?