GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default

[Quackdoc]

Metal is to Vulkan what Open GLES 2.0 is to OpenGL 4.6. I would not see any analogy beside that it was loosely inspired by mantle too.

Vulkan and metal are pretty simple. Vulkan was built ontop of technologies from mantle. Metal was developed by ex mantle developers iirc. Both could be considered the successor to mantle equally IMO.

[mangeek]

Vulkan is still just a pain to deal with on the "individual hobbiest level".

Absolutely, but what I think people were missing back then was that if the toolkit developers embraced it, then the people writing regular programs wouldn't ever need to get that deep into it; they're drawing user interfaces in Qt and GTK+, not setting up raw Vulkan output or whatever.