Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension

[mSparks]

That's 44 that currently exist from NVidia after the latest release integrated a bunch. .

thats all you have to look through if you want to see what nvidia specific extensions exist, otherwise you can completely ignore them.

Then find and list how many extensions have been added to the spec "officially" since Vulkan's initial 1.0 release. I think you'll find the word "hundreds" fits. "thousand" doesn't fit yet but at the rate it's going...

In total there are now
91 KHR extensions
113 EXT extensions
18 AMD extensions
2 Android extensions
4 ARM extensions
4 FUCHSIA extensions
2 GGP extensions
5 Google extensions
3 HUAWEI extensions
2 IMG extensions
2 Intel extensions
1 LUNARG extension
1 Microsoft extension
44 nvidia extensions listed above + 3 NVX
13 QCOM extensions
2 QNX extensions
1 SEC extension
1 Valve extension

give it a few years.

Vulkan has been out for 6 years. so more like a few decades, maybe a century, probably never hit 1000, let alone "thousands".

A much more fun exercise is trying to find how many APIs in Vulkan do basically the exact same thing

Exactly none of them.

and we're going to get the same thing that happened to OpenGL

"same thing" being become a daily driver for 10s of billions of devices?
I think that is very much the plan.