Thanks for the clarification! On "Newer APIs like Vulkan strip away even more abstractions", another comment links to multi-part article https://software.intel.

Thanks for the clarification! On "Newer APIs like Vulkan strip away even more abstractions", another comment links to multi-part article https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/api-without-secrets-introduction-to-vulkan-part-1.html https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article... , and uuuuh yes indeed it's a lot of setup code to draw a triangle :D