[raincole]

> It's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders

Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.

[throwaway2046]

    > Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.

Not in OpenGL 1.x

[jplusequalt]

OpenGL 1.x is older than the hills.

[badsectoracula]

It is also the simplest and most widely available one[0], working from decades old PCs to whatever is latest one, not only from the official drivers but also 3rd party implementations[1] that target other lower level APIs for environments where there isn't an official implementation.

[0] on open platforms at least

[1] it most likely wont be a 100% compliant one (even SGI had trouble on that front :-P) but in practice it'd be usable

[m-schuetz]

Shaders aren't the issue with Vulkan. Writing 50 lines of code for things that should be one-liners is.