[rossant]

Great writeup! I learned Vulkan myself so that I could write a scientific data visualization engine (https://datoviz.org/ still quite experimental, will release a newer version soon). I had some knowledge of OpenGL before and learning Vulkan was SO hard. The learning resources weren't that great 5 years ago. I took up the challenge and it was so much fun. It took me months to understand the role of the various dozens of abstractions. In the process I wrote a small wrapper around Vulkan (https://datoviz.org/api/vklite/) to make it a bit less painful to work with (it supports a subset of the features, those that are the most required for scientific visualization purposes).