World-Scale Render Project

The aim of this project is to make a renderer that can render object the size of worlds, including macroscopic and microscopic details.

Some End Goals

Have similar look/feel as modern graphics applications
Might eventually be backend agnostic. Starting with Vulkan and moving on from there.
Will eventually move away from 3rd party libraries, once the needs arises. Currently, the effort vs. reward is unclear if using i.e. GLFW, v.s. X11, WinAPI etc. NOTE: Fast, performance critical code should be hand written.

Simple decisions to get fast baseline performance.
KISS
Refactor often and sooner (don't take this overboard tho).
The end goals are fairly lofty, which means sacrifices need to made in places - especially where certain features are not necessary. For example, hot-reloading graphics api backends is something that can be foregone as it is not necessary.
Minimise, and elminate wherever possible, pre-processor directives that change code paths. If it is implemented, there should be clear documentation in both the file header comment, and at the site of the directive.

This rule is in place to cut down on the complexity of cross-platform code intermingling (for a terrible example, check out GLFW code). Using pre-processor directives can make the number of possible code permutations sky-rocket.

Ideally, when this rule is followed, the number of code permutations that can occur should should be equal to the number of platforms/architectures supported
Game / Game Engine should be a "service to the OS". This means there should be some platform layer glue that passes all the necessary information (such as foward-direction, memory, etc.). See Casey Muratori Handmade Hero stuff. Still not entirely sure on this

Platform-dependent code is sometimes necessary. When using platform specific code, first, write a generic version (if possible) that can run on all platforms. Then, write the platform specific version
To make things simple, all platform related code should be resolved at compile time.
Platform depedent code should be written in its own file