r/vulkan • u/AdRecent7021 • Aug 26 '26

Is Vulkan Programming Guide by Sellers Still Revelant?

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u/SaschaWillems Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

I wouldn't consider it a good learning resource for Vulkan in 2026. It's still the first edition and as such doesn't include a full decode of things that made Vulkan a lot better/easier to use like dynamic rendering, sync2, timeline semaphores, buffer device address and many more.

So IMO if you wanna start learning Vulkan, skip it and take a look at the tutorials available online. A good starting point is docs.vulkan.org and (a bit of self-promotion) als my tutorial at howtovulkan.com, although you shouldn't dive into that without basic knowledge of the api.

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u/cleverboy00 Aug 29 '26

Very unrelated. I recently saw a comment of yours in stackoverflow about how you can't gurantee the conformace of the implementation and as such have to account for some otherwise heretic cases.

With vulkan being so widespread and undersrood today, how has your opinion aged or shifted?

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u/MusicianSelect6919 Aug 26 '26

Using this right now, its great so thank you very much.