its always mystified me why there are not more standardised, simple things. when i load an image i want width, height and rgba in a buffer. complicated extras s

its always mystified me why there are not more standardised, simple things. when i load an image i want width, height and rgba in a buffer. complicated extras shouldn't be necessary to load an image. this is why i use stb_image.c - even though it doesn't cover everything - it has a sane interface instead of a nightmare like libpng or libjpeg. most image formats and the 'standard' libraries for using them look like a great reason to never employ anyone who had anything to do with them. this one looks like an engineer, competent at the most basic levels, did the most obvious thing. good work. given that most modern app formats do compression anyway i'm not sure there is any need to care about that. pngs don't shrink much inside an ipa or apk but raw data shrinks to about the same size as png in my experience.