[flohofwoe]

OpenGL became a mess of an API after 2.0, and WebGPU is actually a fairly easy to use wrapper around Vk, D3D12, Metal - definitely better designed than what OpenGL has become.

Apart from that, D3D11 and Metalv1 are probably the sweet spot between ease-of-use and performance (especially D3D11's performance is hard to beat even in Vulkan and D3D12).

[shortrounddev2]

D3D11 is so nice to use that I feel like the ideal workflow for ground-up graphics applications is to just write everything in D3D11 and then let Middleware layers on Linux (proton) or Mac (Game porting toolkit) handle the translation. DirectX also has a whole suite of first party software (DirectXMath, DirectXTK) which make a lot of common workflows much simpler.

If only the windows team could get out of a tailspin because almost everything else MS produces on the Windows side gets worse and worse every year.