[andrewmcwatters]

Yes. It's too much to ask. Even the "official" examples by documentation do not do it. Reading the Vulkan specifications is an exercise in practicing technical bullshit.

When you're corroborating some random person's third-party instructions on initializing Vulkan and comparing those notes to what's done in Khronos Group repositories and reading the Vulkan 1.3 spec and realizing you have to read the specification out-of-order to get anything done, it's clear that they failed.

They failed. It's bad work by any other standard. But you'll do the work once and forget about it for the most part, so professionals don't complain too much.

Read my other comment in this thread for a portion of source code annotated with the specification chapters and sections.

It's a generic implementation that can be used with SDL and others.

Edit: As of the time of writing, the standard approach is to use VMA and Volk, both of which are included with the official Vulkan SDK. That should tell you enough about the state of the art.