gl4es VS vulkan-guide

Hindsight is always 20/20.

In hindsight the separation of GL and GLES was pointless IMHO (at least up to 2.x).

It led to GPU vendors to only offer GLES drivers besides the GPU supporting GL (according both the marketing and https://github.com/ptitSeb/gl4es) and made porting standard linux apps to arm platforms needlessly difficult. Note that even with GL4es you have to port the shaders manually to GLES.

Vulkan is a big improvement to that.

I could use gl4es than LLVMPIPE but the problem with gl4es is unexpected crashing because of some packages needed function but gl4es can't provide it

git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/gl4es && cd gl4es && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make install

GL4ES is a library that translates Open GL to Open GL ES.

I totally agree, and so do the people working on it as well as some of the volunteers who write tutorials.

There's an ongoing effort to create beginner friendly introductory material which was discussed in the recent Vulkanised conference. And an effort to make a better documentation site that's easier to browse than the specification.

On the volunteer front, there's a Vulkan 1.3 -based introductory tutorial (work in progress) over at https://vkguide.dev/

I think there should be a Vulkan tutorial that doesn't start with the boring stuff of initialization and window creation. It's stuff that you write once and forget about, and nothing particularly interesting happens in it.

Looking at my hobby project, excluding the boring stuff (which is reusable), a "hello compute" example is around 100 LOC and a "hello triangle" around 120 LOC. GLSL shader sources included.

Maybe someday I'll get around to writing a "learn Vulkan the hard way" blog post with examples.

Also, use https://vkguide.dev/ rather than vulkan-tutorial.

Once you're beyond the "introductory" phase, resources become more specialized based on what you'd like to learn -- there are Vulkan tutorials like https://vkguide.dev/ which will teach you the API and also give a bit more insight in how modern GPU hardware is structured, there are books like the "GPU Zen" series that do deep-dives on specific techniques, and there are tons of recorded GDC and SIGGRAPH talks on interesting new techniques. :)

Personally, I'm a hands on learner who actually wants to use this stuff in my career, so I'd recommend these tutorials: https://learnopengl.com/ https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Overview https://vkguide.dev/

vkguide teaches some good practices regarding code/renderer structure, but I'm afraid it doesn't go as deep as you'd like. It's certainly deeper than most other tutorials, though.

https://vkguide.dev/ This is my favorite.