> If you're looking for fundamental material, the last thing you want is learning a very (not slightly) outdated and weird API.
I've never seen a more detailed tutorial than LearnOpenGL that actually goes through the concepts of graphics programming thoroughly and actually make things other than just "learn how to use the API". That alone should be enough to cement the site's longevity.
> And OpneGL is worse
It's never late to learn Vulkan / DX12 after learning learnopengl.com! The value of learnopengl.com isn't in the APIs, it's about learning the basic concepts of graphics programming. If you start learning with Vulkan without any prerequisite knowledge, you'll be bogged in low-level details from the start that isn't really related with learning the actual fundamentals. (And you'll probably have to unlearn Vulkan and DX12 again once a new API has surfaced)
> It's never late to learn Vulkan / DX12 after learning learnopengl.com!
Why would you do that? Why would you want to learn an API for graphics cards from the 90s instead of an API for the graphics card from the 2010s?
> The value of learnopengl.com isn't in the APIs, it's about learning the basic concepts of graphics programming.
Then you should learn concepts of graphics programming that isn't defined with code snippets like
?> And you'll probably have to unlearn Vulkan and DX12 again once a new API has surfaced
Strange. You "have to unlearn a newer API when an even newer one has surfaced, but you should learn this ancient API anyway".
Edit. See also another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027094