Vulkan Tutorial (Rust)
I'm glad that other people are still working on Vulkan documentation materials. Outside of just reading the specification, Overv's vulkan-tutorial.com is probably one of the most read Vulkan implementations in C++, but I have some minor complaints about it. And I hope this author considers making an improved tutorial, not just translating Overv's to Rust.<p>Vulkan is so painfully verbose in unnecessary ways, forcing you to be explicit about everything, when in many cases, whole swaths of lines of code are unnecessary or the standard could have established sane defaults that match what actually happens in practice in the industry.<p>Maybe I'm in the minority here, I'm sure I probably am, but I see no reason to declare particular structures in both the standard and in tutorial documentation like vulkan-tutorial.com when they widely aren't going to be of use to anyone until you reach broad adoption or advanced usage.<p>Most of these tutorials should be helping you get to a triangle as fast as possible, but none of them follow the order of what you're exposed to in the reference material, and they all go on tangents about needing to state application info (not required), creating your own validation layers (this is advanced material, why recreate VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation???) or declare what device you're going to use (it's almost always going to be the first exposed device--even systems with discrete GPUs will only declare that they have one GPU available and hide the fact that they have an integrated GPU on the CPU).<p>It leads to hundreds of lines of code that distract from the high-level goals: initialize the renderer, set your shaders, upload assets to the GPU, and draw them.<p>I think the industry is still lacking reference-quality documentation outside of the reference specification, which doesn't explicitly help you with implementation details for the most common use cases.<p>I wouldn't expect it to, but it would have been nice. A lot of modern reference specifications do actually do this now.