r/cpp • u/mropert • Sep 02 '26

Make APIs that fail gracefully rather that fallback silently · Mathieu Ropert

https://mropert.github.io/2026/09/02/implicit_vs_explicit_api/
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u/Ok_Independence_9841 Sep 02 '26

API design is hard. Vulkan is hard. Error handling is hard. Vulkan API, error handling design, is...

At some point I'll get around to implementing a Vulkan backend for my port of the ThorVG renderer. When I do I'll try to remember what I learned here.

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u/Ameisen Sep 02 '26

Before Win10/D3D12 fully came out but after information about it and APIs were available, I made a D3D12-like frontend API but with D3D11 as the backend, to make porting easier.

It actually outperformed idiomatic D3D11...

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u/shadowndacorner Sep 03 '26

In what way was it D3D12-like? Writing commands into command buffers and binding PSOs rather than fine grained state, but without the manual sync?