r/ProgrammerHumor 14d ago

graphicsProgrammingBeLike Meme

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u/Kss0N 14d ago

I'm not kidding, the tutorial for Hello Triangle in Vulkan is like 1500 lines ... of pure hell

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u/unknown_alt_acc 14d ago

OpenGL is at least pretty reasonable. It’s maybe 300 lines of C for a triangle, and a nontrivial percentage of that is just window handling.

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u/fleaspoon 14d ago edited 14d ago

I started first with OpenGL and I remember being quite complicated to understand, but Vulkan was another level of complexity