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Lightning Talk: Simplify Vulkan APIs with Code Generation

Lightningat CppCon 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-10-24· [web-performance]
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Vulkan "hello world" balloons into hundreds of lines, so the claim is concrete: read the official XML API registry and generate code rather than hand-write init. The demo uses XSLT code generation to emit constexpr headers with enums, platform/extension flags and context type traits, plus initial builder classes that wire required fields and automate extension selection. Work is partial: some builders and swapchain wiring remain unfinished but the GitHub proof‑of‑concept compiles and runs.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:31What did I learn
  3. 0:57Initializing
  4. 1:44API Registry
  5. 2:37Vulkan Types
  6. 3:27Conclusion
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