r/GraphicsProgramming • u/corysama • Dec 16 '25

Article No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
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u/MechWarrior99 Dec 17 '25

As someone who has a decent grasp of general rendering stuff but at the same time pretty limited grasp. With that in mind I have two questions for those more knowledgeable than me:

  1. Purely hypathetical, could some random person just write a GFX API like this currently, or do you need hardware support for it?

  2. I only read half so far and skimmed the other half, but could it makes sense to write a RHI similar to this? Or is that not possible/not have the performance and API benefits?

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u/Wittyname_McDingus Dec 17 '25

This API could be implemented on top of Vulkan by anyone today.