Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer

Back in December 2025, Sebastian Aaltonen published a blog titled “No Graphics API” - it presented a great history of the evolution of GPU hardware, and gave an opinionated perspective on how we could simplify the modern graphics APIs on modern hardware. Like many graphics programmers, I read Sebastian’s blog post and really enjoyed it - I was inspired by it, and decided to see how close to the API he describes I could get today, layered on top of existing platform APIs. The answer turns out to