sebbbi/NoGraphicsAPI

Minimal graphics API. Built on top of latest Vulkan extensions. As close as possibly to my "No Graphics API" blog post and the SIGGRAPH talk.

Games & graphicsC++

1.4 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

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About the project

An experimental Vulkan 1.4 implementation of the "No Graphics API" ideas: GPU pointers instead of buffers, application-owned descriptor heaps, hazard-based barriers. A thin low-level Vulkan wrapper for graphics programmers.

Useful for

Build the examples on Vulkan 1.4 to study an API without descriptor sets or pipeline layouts
Port shaders to Slang using 64-bit GPU pointers and descriptor heaps
Evaluate hazard-based synchronization instead of resource state transitions

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

20 stars today.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 15% of the previous week and a half.
The repository is 13 days old and already has 1,356 stars.
Top new repositories this month: #47.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 1,356
Stars in a day: 20
Forks: 40
Issues and pull requests: 16
Watchers: 17
Language: C++
License: MIT
Created: August 31, 2026
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026Top new repositories this month: #47

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