So, three months ago I started writing a Vulkan wrapper alongside my Super Hexagon clone because every existing one made me angry for different reasons. ash is too low level (although i love it), vulkano makes choices for you, wgpu is a different abstraction entirely. Fine, i'll do it myself, how hard can it be?

Turns out hard. But that's not the point... and I made it zero-dependency. It relies on ash only. Without egui, winit or etc. Pure FFI, pure ash.

The point is two weeks ago I was debugging a missing barrier between a compute write and a fragment read, and I sat in renderdoc for forty minutes scrolling through a frame capture trying to figure out which of my 60 dispatches was the one. and I thought, you know what, I have all this state in my own library already, I just need to render it somewhere.

So now I have an ipc (im tired pressing shift sorry) ring buffer between my lib and a separate viewer process, and the viewer draws:

A frame graph that updates live.…