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by gulpahum 3682 days ago
I had a look at a Metal tutorial [1], which does the same initialization as the Vulkan tutorial. Indeed, it has similar concept, but is also simpler (partly because it is written in Swift, not C++).

I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper, which would be at the same level as Metal, but run on top of Metal and Vulkan. That would be something I'd like to use!

I still think Vulkan is great. Now, we need to start building libraries on top of it. The nice thing about very low-level APIs is that it is possible to write higher-level APIs on top of them. The opposite isn't really possible.

[1] https://www.raywenderlich.com/77488/ios-8-metal-tutorial-swi...

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The gfx-rs library for Rust is actually targeting exactly that, although they aren't there yet.