This is just a playground for me to learn Vulcan through Rust. I'll be using Ash, which is pretty mature and gives me more lower-level control than something like Vulkano, keeping me as close to the "metal" as possible.
I've made a foray into Vulkan development before using C++, following this tutorial. I stopped at a reasonable point there, having drawn a triangle to the screen, so I'm going to start by trying to port that into Rust. Shouldn't be too hard.
After that, the aim is to make the code more idiomatic and "Rusty". This means building safe wrappers around unsafe code, using useful Rust constructs where they are more appropriate than whatever was being used in C++, etc.
Once that's done, I can start implementing more features. The precise next steps are yet to be determined, but I'm thinking I'll start trying to draw more complex objects and transformations. I'll make this up as I go, since there's no concrete end goal for this project.
As with most of my projects, I'm trying to use as few dependencies as possible. That means that unless it's outrageously time- and effort-consuming to do so (like building my own RNG), I'll be reinventing the wheel here and there.
I find rendering technology fascinating---I've built a [pathtracer] using Rust before, but I also really want to build a solid realtime renderer. Maybe (and this is a lofty, way-out-there goal that I realistically probably won't achieve) building a rudimentary game engine at some point would be cool.
As for why I'm using Rust instead of C++ like I already have, I just like Rust better (not that I don't like C++, cause I love it). It's fun to use and helps exercise my ability to think and write safe code.
EDIT: Having started, I'm starting to think this isn't quite worth it. I might return to this later, but for now I'll just stick with C++.
- Port C++ Vulkan code directly into Rust
- Make ported Vulkan code more idiomatic
- TBD
None so far!