Vulkan-Guide VS awesome-vulkan

Vulkan directly supports many platforms, and also supports MacOS and IOS through porting tools.

You have access to atomics in vulkan

You might want to take a look at our Vulkan guide. The linked chapter has common terms for Vulkan, DirectX and Metal.

Vulkan has WSI, which is roughly equivalent to GLX or EGL in the OpenGL world.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Guide/blob/master/cha...

Vulkan Guide for more

Yes The gist is: you don't actually save any time trying to not-rerecord, and it limits your ability to do many basic real optimizations, like frustum culling. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Guide/blob/master/chapters/common_pitfalls.md#recording-command-buffers

Looks like there is a lot more work before it can be used for anything more than dash entertainment system.. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Guide/blob/master/chapters/what_vulkan_can_do.md#safety-critical

there are: - OpenSceneGraph ( and vsg ) - Ogre3D - Magnum - A plethora of them here, here and here.

I do wish the authors had picked a somewhat more distinct name. Being so close to the official Vulkan Compute seems dubious. Looking at the awesome-vulkan list, very few projects are named like vulkan-blah.

If you are hellbent on going with vulkan, however, then I would reccomend looking around here: https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan

There are several libraries which try to 'make vulkan easier' to varying degrees of success, you'll have to decide if they are right for you. Hers a decent list of various vulkan libraries and projects. https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan